Astreopora myriophthalma
Astreopora myriophthalma, sometimes known as porous star coral, is a species of hard coral found in shallow water in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is a common species with a wide range and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of "least concern".
Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- AstreoporaPBDB
- 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 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
7 occurrences of Astreopora myriophthalma on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
7 occurrences- Miocene29%
- Pliocene29%
- Pleistocene43%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Astreopora myriophthalma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Astreopora myriophthalma and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Astreopora myriophthalma and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
149 taxa- Blastomussa simplicitexta3 sites
- Diploastrea heliopora3 sites
- Galaxea fascicularis3 sites
- Merulina ampliata3 sites
- Porites3 sites
- Acropora2 sites
- Alveopora2 sites
- Alveopora polyacantha2 sites
- Ctenactis echinata2 sites
- Cycloseris cyclolites2 sites
- Cyphastrea chalcidicum2 sites
- Cyphastrea microphthalma2 sites
- Dictyaraea anomala2 sites
- Dipsastraea speciosa2 sites
- Favites abdita2 sites
- Favites pentagona2 sites
- Fungia2 sites
- Galaxea astreata2 sites
- Goniastrea retiformis2 sites
- Goniastrea stelligera2 sites
- Heliofungia actiniformis2 sites
- Hydnophora microconos2 sites
- Leptoria phrygia2 sites
- Leptoseris hawaiiensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Astreopora myriophthalma, 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
5 references- Field work Sinai2
- Corals from a lower Pliocene patch reef in Central Java2
- Arun Field Indonesia, North Sumatra Basin, Sumatra1
- Facies, Fossil Record, and Age of Pleistocene Reefs from the Red Sea (Saudi Arabia)1
- Coral species stability in reef corals of Papua New Guinea and the Indo-Pacific1
Each of the 7 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. 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 Astreopora myriophthalma
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Diego Delso
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Astreopora myriophthalma 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
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAstreopora through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1816)