Goniastrea australensis

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Sits inside

GoniastreaPBDB

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

• Pliocene3%
• Pleistocene95%
• Holocene3%

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.

Where Goniastrea australensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Cyphastrea serailia3 sites
• Galaxea fascicularis3 sites
• Pavona varians3 sites
• Pocillopora damicornis3 sites
• Seriatopora hystrix3 sites
• Acropora muricata2 sites
• Cyphastrea2 sites
• Dipsastraea favus2 sites
• Dipsastraea pallida2 sites
• Euphyllia2 sites
• Fungia fungites2 sites
• Goniastrea retiformis2 sites
• Goniastrea stelligera2 sites
• Heliofungia actiniformis2 sites
• Herpolitha limax2 sites
• Hydnophora exesa2 sites
• Hydnophora microconos2 sites
• Leptoria phrygia2 sites
• Lithophyllon concinna2 sites
• Lobophyllia2 sites
• Lobophyllia hemprichii2 sites
• Montipora2 sites
• Pachyseris rugosa2 sites
• Platygyra2 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Goniastrea australensis, 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.

• Escaping the heat: range shifts of reef coral taxa in coastal Western AustraliaGreenstein and Pandolfi, 2008 · Global Change Biology · journal article19
• Stratigraphy and paleontology of Pleistocene submarine volcanic-sedimentary sequences at the northern Kermadec IslandsBrook, 1998 · Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand · journal article14
• Taxonomic vetting of Pleistocene coral occurrence dataKiessling et al., 2011 · unpublished4
• Evidence for ca. 7-ka maximum Holocene transgression on the Peninsular Malaysia east coastParham et al., 2014 · Journal of Quaternary Science · journal article1
• Evidence of high sea level during isotope stage 5c in Queensland, AustraliaPickett et al., 1985 · Quaternary Research · journal article1
• Ricerche eseguite negli anni 1941-1942 sopra i Coralli delle scogliere emerse di Massaua e Gibuti [Research done between 1941 and 1942 on emersed coral reefs of Massawa and Djibouti]Montanaro Gallitelli, 1973 · Missione Geologica dell'Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli (AGIP) nella Dancalia Meridionale e sugli Altipiani Hararini (1936-1938) · book/book chapter1

Each of the 40 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.

What may have been alongside itGoniastrea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Milne Edwards and Haime 1857)