Caulastrea portoricensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CaulastreaPBDB
- 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 24 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.
69 occurrences of Caulastrea portoricensis on record. 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
69 occurrences- Oligocene4%
- Miocene17%
- Pliocene39%
- Pleistocene40%
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
14 formations
- Moin Formation · Limon Group16
- Quebrada Chocolate Formation · Limon Group9
- Isla Colon Formation · Bocas del Toro Group7
- Seroe Domi Formation6
- Old Bank Formation6
- Tamana Formation5
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The named rock units Caulastrea portoricensis 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.
Found in the same rock
159 taxa- Agaricia agaricites38 sites
- Orbicella limbata26 sites
- Porites astreoides25 sites
- Acropora cervicornis24 sites
- Porites baracoaensis22 sites
- Stylophora granulata20 sites
- Acropora palmata18 sites
- Pseudodiploria strigosa17 sites
- Porites furcata16 sites
- Siderastrea siderea16 sites
- Manicina areolata15 sites
- Colpophyllia natans13 sites
- Montastraea12 sites
- Porites portoricensis12 sites
- Stylophora monticulosa12 sites
- Montastraea cavernosa10 sites
- Stylophora affinis10 sites
- Diploria labyrinthiformis9 sites
- Montastraea faveolata9 sites
- Placocyathus variabilis9 sites
- Stylophora minor9 sites
- Thysanus9 sites
- Dichocoenia stokesi8 sites
- Porites waylandi8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Caulastrea portoricensis, 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
10 references- Taxonomic vetting of Pleistocene coral occurrence data30
- Neogene reef coral assemblages of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama: the rise of Acropora palmata15
- Origination preceding extinction during late Cenozoic turnover of Caribbean reefs8
- Middle Miocene recovery of Caribbean reef corals: new data from the Tamana Formation, Trinidad5
- Zooxanthellate scleractinian corals of the Bowden shell bed, Southeast Jamaica3
- Reef corals of the White Limestone Group of Jamaica2
- Neogene Paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic 19: The family Faviidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) part II: The genera Caulastraea, Favia, Diploria, Thysanus, Hadrophyllia, Manicina and Colpophyllia2
- Pliocene to Pleistocene reef coral assemblages in the Limon Group of Costa Rica2
- Stratigraphic distributions of genera and species of Neogene to recent Carribean reef corals1
- Patch-reef communities and succession in the Oligocene of Antigua, West Indies1
Each of the 69 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
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GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Caulastrea portoricensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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. (Coryell 1929)