Endopachys

Endopachys is a genus of corals belonging to the family Dendrophylliidae.

Endopachys

Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012) · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
DendrophylliidaePBDB
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 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 100 occurrencesEocene — about 94 of 100 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 100 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 100 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 100 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 100 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 4 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 4 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 22 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 37 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 12 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 6 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences48.07 Mya129 ka57 Mya0 Mya

100 occurrences of Endopachys on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

100 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

17 formations

Moodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.32°WMoodys Branch — 31.31°N, 86.48°WMoodys Branch — 31.14°N, 87.94°WMoodys Branch — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.70°N, 88.28°WLisbon — 32.10°N, 88.85°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.57°N, 87.58°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WGosport Sand — 31.57°N, 88.04°WYazoo Clay — 31.78°N, 88.46°WYazoo Clay — 31.77°N, 88.33°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 80.15°WSantee Limestone — 33.41°N, 80.10°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 79.69°WTupelo Bay — 33.25°N, 80.45°WTupelo Bay — 33.47°N, 80.49°WClaiborne Sand — 31.53°N, 87.50°WCockfield — 31.88°N, 88.69°WCrockett — 30.67°N, 96.37°WCastle Hayne — 34.64°N, 77.65°WPucangan — 7.23°S, 112.75°ETallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WShark River — 40.17°N, 74.15°WBarnwell Sand — 33.56°N, 81.72°WArcadia — 27.88°N, 82.48°W

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The named rock units Endopachys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Endopachys and its relatives

Eocene

Where Endopachys and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

863 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Endopachys, 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

16 references

Each of the 100 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. 4 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 Endopachys

Credit
Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012)
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Endopachys 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.

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 itDendrophylliidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lonsdale 1845