Dipsastraea speciosa

Dipsastraea speciosa is a species of colonial stony coral in the family Merulinidae. It is found in tropical waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans.

Dipsastraea speciosa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DipsastraeaPBDB
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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 58 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 58 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 58 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 38 of 58 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.7–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 32 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

58 occurrences of Dipsastraea speciosa 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

58 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

13 formations

Riukiu Limestone — 28.33°N, 130.00°ERiukiu Limestone — 24.75°N, 125.33°ERiukiu Limestone — 24.45°N, 123.00°ERiukiu Limestone — 24.05°N, 123.75°EBoat Cove — 29.22°S, 177.83°WChaya — 23.33°N, 71.93°EChaya — 22.42°N, 69.00°EDayrell — 29.23°S, 177.82°WSamadai — 26.10°N, 34.26°ESamadai — 25.15°N, 34.85°EPucangan — 7.23°S, 112.75°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.25°S, 110.67°ESondé — 8.00°S, 114.00°ENabire — 3.60°S, 135.52°ERiukiu limestone — 23.00°N, 122.00°ENuma — 34.97°N, 139.83°ENias — 1.08°N, 97.73°EFarasan — 16.75°N, 42.00°E

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The named rock units Dipsastraea speciosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dipsastraea speciosa and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Dipsastraea speciosa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

409 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Dipsastraea speciosa, 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

30 references

Each of the 58 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. 18 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 Dipsastraea speciosa

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Dipsastraea speciosa 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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What may have been alongside itDipsastraea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dana 1846)