Agariciidae

The Agariciidae are a family of reef-building stony corals. This family includes cactus corals, plate corals, and lettuce corals. Members of the family include symbiotic algae called zooxanthellae in their tissues which help provide their energy requirements.

Agariciidae

Dr. Dwayne Meadows, NOAA/NMFS/OPR · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AgariciicaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 154 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 1254 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 1254 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 22 of 1254 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 47 of 1254 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 12 of 1254 occurrencesEocene — about 72 of 1254 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 136 of 1254 occurrencesMiocene — about 220 of 1254 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 128 of 1254 occurrencesPleistocene — about 545 of 1254 occurrences165–159 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences159–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 2 occurrences132–126 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 3 occurrences121–115 Mya — about 6 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 8 occurrences110–104 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–93 Mya — about 3 occurrences93–88 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences88–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 4 occurrences77–71 Mya — about 7 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 29 occurrences66–60 Mya — about 4 occurrences60–55 Mya — about 9 occurrences55–49 Mya — about 6 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 10 occurrences44–38 Mya — about 14 occurrences38–33 Mya — about 51 occurrences33–27 Mya — about 52 occurrences27–22 Mya — about 93 occurrences22–16 Mya — about 87 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 45 occurrences11–5.5 Mya — about 66 occurrences5.5–0 Mya — about 746 occurrences154.8 Mya11.7 ka165 Mya0 Mya

1,254 occurrences of Agariciidae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

1,254 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

143 formations

Moin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WIronshore — 19.30°N, 81.33°WIronshore — 19.37°N, 81.38°WIronshore — 19.32°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.28°N, 81.15°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WUrraca — 9.38°N, 82.24°WUrraca — 9.45°N, 82.30°WUrraca — 9.43°N, 82.32°WSalcedo — 45.77°N, 11.60°ECastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.55°N, 11.45°ECastelgomberto — 45.52°N, 11.48°ECastelgomberto — 45.75°N, 11.50°ECastelgomberto — 45.42°N, 11.50°EIsla Colon — 9.37°N, 82.23°WIsla Colon — 9.42°N, 82.32°WIsla Colon — 9.30°N, 82.10°WIsla Colon — 9.35°N, 82.17°WTamana — 10.39°N, 61.29°WTamana — 10.22°N, 61.37°WTamana — 10.46°N, 61.24°WTamana — 10.33°N, 61.43°WTamana — 10.33°N, 62.42°WNias — 1.12°N, 97.62°ENias — 1.03°N, 97.75°ENias — 0.92°N, 97.63°ENias — 0.97°N, 97.88°ENias — 1.38°N, 97.37°ENias — 1.35°N, 97.30°ECercado — 19.67°N, 71.40°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.18°WGuinea Corn — 18.15°N, 77.37°WGuinea Corn — 18.16°N, 77.38°WCastro Limestone — 40.02°N, 18.43°ECulebra — 9.07°N, 79.68°WOld Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°WGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°ESeroe Domi — 12.10°N, 68.90°WSeroe Domi — 12.16°N, 69.00°WEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°EBoat Cove — 29.28°S, 177.85°WBoat Cove — 29.22°S, 177.83°WBoat Cove — 29.23°S, 177.88°WLower Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.44°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.83°N, 14.44°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.88°N, 14.48°EMoneague — 18.40°N, 77.37°WMoneague — 17.95°N, 77.38°WTokelau — 17.22°S, 178.97°WTokelau — 17.29°S, 178.99°WManchioneal — 18.19°N, 76.43°WQom — 31.50°N, 52.73°EQom — 32.95°N, 52.14°EQom — 29.31°N, 56.18°ENabire — 3.60°S, 135.52°E

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The named rock units Agariciidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 119 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 492 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Agariciidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Agariciidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,434 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 374 sites for Agariciidae, and this reads 240 of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

233 references

Each of the 1,254 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 221 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Agariciidae

Credit
Dr. Dwayne Meadows, NOAA/NMFS/OPR
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Agariciidae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1847