Goniastrea favulus

Goniastrea favulus, also known as the lesser star coral, is a species of stony coral in the family Merulinidae. It occurs in shallow water in the Indo-Pacific region. This is an uncommon species of coral and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being "near threatened".

Goniastrea favulus

Rowley, Chris · CC BY 2.5 · 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
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

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 18 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 18 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 16 of 18 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences13.82 Mya129 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

18 occurrences of Goniastrea favulus 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

18 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

5 formations

Era Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°ESobe — 26.39°N, 127.73°ESalayar — 5.90°S, 120.50°EYalam — 4.28°S, 151.83°EFarasan — 16.75°N, 42.00°E

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The named rock units Goniastrea favulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Goniastrea favulus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Goniastrea favulus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

95 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Goniastrea favulus, 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

6 references

Each of the 18 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 content2

Picture of Goniastrea favulus

Credit
Rowley, Chris
Licence
CC BY 2.5
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.

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 itGoniastrea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dana 1846)