Goniastrea retiformis

Goniastrea retiformis is a species of stony corals in the family Merulinidae. It is native to shallow water in the Indo-Pacific region.

Goniastrea retiformis

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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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 123 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 20 of 123 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 87 of 123 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 95 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

123 occurrences of Goniastrea retiformis 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

123 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

13 formations

Chaya — 22.42°N, 69.00°ERiukiu Limestone — 24.45°N, 123.00°ERiukiu Limestone — 24.05°N, 123.75°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.25°S, 110.67°ESamadai — 25.00°N, 34.93°ESamadai — 26.10°N, 34.26°EMerizo — 13.23°N, 144.72°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°ESondé — 8.00°S, 114.00°EHateruma — 24.04°N, 123.79°EShagra — 25.25°N, 34.80°ENuma — 34.97°N, 139.83°ESampolakosa — 5.56°S, 122.74°ETokelau — 17.22°S, 178.97°WFarasan — 16.75°N, 42.00°E

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The named rock units Goniastrea retiformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 104 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Goniastrea retiformis and its relatives

Pleistocene

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

Found in the same rock

511 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Goniastrea retiformis, 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

53 references

Each of the 123 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. 41 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 content2

Picture of Goniastrea retiformis

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow 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. (Lamarck 1816)