Echinopora hirsutissima

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- EchinoporaPBDB
- 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 117 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 129 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
4 occurrences of Echinopora hirsutissima 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
4 occurrences- Pleistocene75%
- Holocene25%
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
3 formations
- Miyako-jima Formation · Ryukyu Group1
- Samadai Formation1
- Farasan Formation1
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The named rock units Echinopora hirsutissima 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.
Echinopora hirsutissima and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Echinopora hirsutissima and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Acropora abrotanoides1 site
- Acropora digitifera1 site
- Acropora hyacinthus1 site
- Acropora monticulosa1 site
- Acropora palmerae1 site
- Acropora robusta1 site
- Acropora spicifera1 site
- Acropora tenuis1 site
- Astrea curta1 site
- Cyphastrea microphthalma1 site
- Cyphastrea serailia1 site
- Diploastrea heliopora1 site
- Dipsastraea favus1 site
- Dipsastraea pallida1 site
- Echinophyllia aspera1 site
- Echinopora gemmacea1 site
- Echinopora lamellosa1 site
- Echinopora pacificus1 site
- Favites1 site
- Favites chinensis1 site
- Favites flexuosa1 site
- Favites pentagona1 site
- Favites valenciennesii1 site
- Fungia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Echinopora hirsutissima, 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- Quaternary corals (Scleractinia: Merulinidae) from the Egyptian and Saudi Arabian Red Sea Coast2
- Model of fringing reef development in response to progressive sea level fall over the last 7000 years (Kikai-jima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan)1
- Community Structures of Recent and Pleistocene Hermatypic Corals in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan1
Each of the 4 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 Echinopora hirsutissima
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- 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 Echinopora hirsutissima 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.
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. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849