Colpophyllia duncani
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ColpophylliaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Faviina
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Faviina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
5 occurrences of Colpophyllia duncani on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
5 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Moneague Formation · White Limestone Group2
- Gatuncillo Formation1
- Swanswick Formation · White Limestone Group1
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The named rock units Colpophyllia duncani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Colpophyllia duncani and its relatives
EoceneWhere Colpophyllia duncani and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
114 taxa- Alveopora4 sites
- Antiguastrea cellulosa3 sites
- Colpophyllia willoughbiensis3 sites
- Diploastrea3 sites
- Millepora3 sites
- Stylocoenia3 sites
- Acropora panamensis2 sites
- Acropora saludensis2 sites
- Actinacis alabamensis2 sites
- Actinacis barretti2 sites
- Agathiphyllia hilli2 sites
- Alveopora tampae2 sites
- Antiguastrea prava2 sites
- Astrocoenia incrustans2 sites
- Astrocoenia portoricoensis2 sites
- Caulastrea2 sites
- Caulastrea portoricensis2 sites
- Diploastrea crassolamellata2 sites
- Diploria portoricensis2 sites
- Hydnophora variabilis2 sites
- Leptoria spenceri2 sites
- Leptoseris2 sites
- Leptoseris portoricensis2 sites
- Montastraea2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Colpophyllia duncani, 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
3 references- Reef corals of the White Limestone Group of Jamaica3
- Eocene Caribbean Reef Corals: A Unique Fauna from the Gatuncillo Formation of Panama1
- Corals from the Cretaceous and Eocene of Jamaica1
Each of the 5 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 content0
No picture of Colpophyllia duncani was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Colpophyllia duncani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Colpophyllia duncani 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itColpophyllia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wells 1935