Goniopora elegans

No picture of Goniopora elegans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Goniopora elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GonioporaPBDB
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 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 24 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 24 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 24 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 24 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 24 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 24 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 24 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–88 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences88–84 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences84–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences44–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85.7 Mya20.45 Mya146 Mya13 Mya

24 occurrences of Goniopora elegans on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

24 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

Castelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.55°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.75°N, 11.50°ESanto Spirito — 42.17°N, 14.17°ETheresienstein — 47.72°N, 13.48°ESimsima — 24.87°N, 55.95°ERoda — 42.30°N, 0.53°ELuza — 49.10°N, 31.97°ETrstelj — 45.68°N, 13.97°ERestin — 4.65°S, 81.30°WAlaro Calcarenite — 39.55°N, 2.36°ERudeis — 29.12°N, 33.22°EUlukışla — 37.62°N, 35.00°EQahlah — 24.28°N, 55.83°ETarbur — 31.42°N, 51.53°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Goniopora elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Goniopora elegans and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Goniopora elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

145 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Goniopora elegans, 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

17 references

Each of the 24 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. 5 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 content0

No picture of Goniopora elegans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Goniopora elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Goniopora elegans was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itGoniopora through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

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