Echinopora

Echinopora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MerulinidaePBDB
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 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 121 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 121 occurrencesMiocene — about 18 of 121 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 121 occurrencesPleistocene — about 72 of 121 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–8.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.2–6.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 86 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

121 occurrences of Echinopora 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

121 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

15 formations

Nias — 1.12°N, 97.62°ENias — 1.03°N, 97.75°ENias — 0.87°N, 97.68°ESamadai — 25.00°N, 34.93°ESamadai — 26.10°N, 34.26°ESamadai — 25.15°N, 34.85°EFarasan — 16.75°N, 42.00°EMiyako-jima — 24.80°N, 125.28°ENabire — 3.60°S, 135.52°ERembang — 6.70°S, 111.33°ERembang — 6.97°S, 110.42°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°ENaha — 26.41°N, 127.74°ESaidabad Coral Limestone — 29.30°N, 56.18°EShagra — 25.25°N, 34.80°EGelingseh — 1.07°N, 117.80°ESalayar — 6.18°S, 120.43°ETokelau — 17.22°S, 178.97°WTogopi — 5.25°N, 119.20°EAl Jabub — 31.97°N, 24.46°E

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The named rock units Echinopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 91 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Echinopora and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Echinopora and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

509 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Echinopora, 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

48 references

Each of the 121 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. 36 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 content2

Picture of Echinopora

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itMerulinidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1816