Goniopora

Goniopora, commonly referred to as flowerpot coral or daisy coral, is a genus of colonial stony coral found in lagoons and turbid water conditions. Goniopora have numerous daisy-like polyps that extend outward from the base, each tipped with 24 stinging tentacles which surrounds a mouth.

Goniopora

Peter Young Cho, MD · CC BY-SA 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
PoritidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Poritidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Poritidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Poritidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Poritidae

Time the record covers

At least 85 million years on record.

The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 428 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 428 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 23 of 428 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 29 of 428 occurrencesEocene — about 62 of 428 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 80 of 428 occurrencesMiocene — about 139 of 428 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 27 of 428 occurrencesPleistocene — about 52 of 428 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 7 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 10 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 13 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 15 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 9 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 7 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 10 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 30 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 19 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 46 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 44 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 51 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 30 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 33 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 90 occurrences85.7 Mya11.7 ka146 Mya0 Mya

428 occurrences of Goniopora on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

428 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

109 formations

Salayar — 6.18°S, 120.43°ESalayar — 5.90°S, 120.50°ESalayar — 6.08°S, 120.48°EAnguilla — 18.23°N, 63.07°WTokelau — 17.22°S, 178.97°WTokelau — 17.32°S, 178.99°WCastro Limestone — 40.02°N, 18.43°ECastro Limestone — 39.85°N, 18.38°EQom — 34.64°N, 50.72°EQom — 31.50°N, 52.73°EQom — 33.79°N, 51.74°EQom — 32.95°N, 52.14°EYalam — 4.28°S, 151.83°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.44°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.88°N, 14.48°ECastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.55°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.75°N, 11.50°EBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WCercado — 19.67°N, 71.40°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.27°WAntigua — 17.03°N, 61.68°WAntigua — 17.14°N, 61.82°WAntigua — 17.07°N, 61.70°WTrstelj — 45.68°N, 13.97°ETrstelj — 45.57°N, 14.00°ERio Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 71.07°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.30°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 71.17°WCulebra — 9.07°N, 79.67°WSiamaná — 12.07°N, 71.44°WTamana — 10.39°N, 61.29°WTamana — 10.33°N, 61.43°WLa Quinta — 17.12°N, 92.88°WLa Quinta — 17.13°N, 92.70°WSan Andres — 12.53°N, 81.70°WEptachorion — 40.13°N, 21.14°EAlaro Calcarenite — 39.53°N, 2.45°EAlaro Calcarenite — 39.55°N, 2.36°EValiente — 9.15°N, 81.94°WSimsima — 25.72°N, 55.82°ESimsima — 25.02°N, 55.78°ENago Limestone — 45.89°N, 10.88°E

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The named rock units Goniopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 85 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 183 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Goniopora and its relatives

Miocene

Where Goniopora and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,858 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 171 sites for Goniopora, 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

164 references

Each of the 428 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. 152 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 content3

Picture of Goniopora

Credit
Peter Young Cho, MD
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D scan

Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
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Specimen
Goniopora somaliensis

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
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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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blainville 1830