Alveopora

Alveopora is a genus of colonial stony corals in the family Acroporidae. Members of this genus are native to the Indo-Pacific region and are often found on reef slopes in turbid water. They are generally uncommon.

Alveopora

Ryan Boren · CC BY 2.0 · 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
AcroporidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Acroporidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Acroporidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 162 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 162 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 10 of 162 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 59 of 162 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 57 of 162 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 162 occurrencesPleistocene — about 16 of 162 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 6 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 9 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 22 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 18 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 10 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 10 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 11 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 7 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences59.24 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

162 occurrences of Alveopora on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

162 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

39 formations

Antigua — 17.03°N, 61.68°WAntigua — 17.14°N, 61.82°WAntigua — 17.07°N, 61.73°WSalcedo — 45.77°N, 11.60°ESiamaná — 12.07°N, 71.44°WYalam — 4.28°S, 151.83°EGelingseh — 1.07°N, 117.85°EGelingseh — 0.87°N, 117.85°ECastro Limestone — 40.02°N, 18.43°EMoneague — 18.40°N, 77.37°WMoneague — 17.95°N, 77.38°WCastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.52°N, 11.48°ENias — 1.12°N, 97.62°ENias — 0.97°N, 97.88°EDubar — 11.24°N, 48.98°EDubar — 11.47°N, 49.87°EQom — 31.50°N, 52.73°EQom — 29.31°N, 56.18°EGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°ERiukiu Limestone — 28.33°N, 130.00°ERiukiu Limestone — 24.75°N, 125.33°EBelsué-Atarés — 42.55°N, 0.70°WBelsué-Atarés — 42.53°N, 0.62°WArcadia — 27.88°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.95°N, 82.37°WTokelau — 17.22°S, 178.97°WTokelau — 17.32°S, 178.99°WLower Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.44°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.88°N, 14.48°EGatuncillo — 9.25°N, 79.63°WNago Limestone — 45.89°N, 10.88°EAvella — 42.17°N, 14.17°EDarkhunish — 26.53°N, 57.58°ELa Quinta — 17.12°N, 92.88°WProgo Beds — 7.65°S, 110.05°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°E

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The named rock units Alveopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 65 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Alveopora and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Alveopora and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

979 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Alveopora, and this reads all 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

73 references

Each of the 162 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. 61 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 Alveopora

Credit
Ryan Boren
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Alveopora was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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

The description on this site

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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. Blainville 1830