Fungia inaequicostata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FungiaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Fungiidae
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Fungia
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Fungia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Fungiidae
Time the record covers
At least 1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 774 ka.
5 occurrences of Fungia inaequicostata on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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 occurrences- Pliocene80%
- Pleistocene20%
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
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The named rock units Fungia inaequicostata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Fungia inaequicostata and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Fungia inaequicostata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
143 taxa- Lithophyllon concinna4 sites
- Cyathoseris lophiophora3 sites
- Dictyaraea anomala3 sites
- Dipsastraea speciosa3 sites
- Leptastrea purpurea3 sites
- Lobophyllia corymbosa3 sites
- Pachyseris curvata3 sites
- Pavona clavus3 sites
- Pocillopora jenkinsi3 sites
- Blastomussa simplicitexta2 sites
- Ctenactis echinata2 sites
- Cycloseris cyclolites2 sites
- Cyphastrea microphthalma2 sites
- Diploastrea heliopora2 sites
- Favites2 sites
- Favites abdita2 sites
- Galaxea astreata2 sites
- Goniastrea retiformis2 sites
- Hydnophora grandis2 sites
- Leptoria phrygia2 sites
- Merulina ampliata2 sites
- Platygyra daedalea2 sites
- Porites2 sites
- Symphyllia recta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Fungia inaequicostata, 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
4 references- Corals from a lower Pliocene patch reef in Central Java2
- Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-Pacific reef corals throughout the Neogene1
- Corals from the Putjangan beds (Lower Pleistocene) of Java1
- Corals from the Upper Kalibeng beds (Upper Pliocene) of Java1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Fungia inaequicostata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFungia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gerth 1925