Goniopora octopartita
No picture of Goniopora octopartita 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 octopartita, 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 most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Goniopora octopartita on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Goniopora octopartita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Goniopora octopartita and its relatives
EoceneWhere Goniopora octopartita and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Actinacis cognata1 site
- Antiguastrea1 site
- Archaeolithoporella1 site
- Assilina1 site
- Asterocyclina1 site
- Astreopora tecta1 site
- Astrocoenia1 site
- Astrocoenia lobatorotundata1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Bolivinidae1 site
- Cladocora tenuis1 site
- Cyathoseris1 site
- Desmophyllum1 site
- Discocyclina1 site
- Discocyclina augustae1 site
- Ellipsocoenia1 site
- Euphyllia1 site
- Goniopora ameliana1 site
- Goniopora elegans1 site
- Halkyardia1 site
- Heterostegina1 site
- Heterostegina reticulata1 site
- Hydnophyllia stellata1 site
- Leptomussa variabilis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Goniopora octopartita, 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
3 references- A Bükkhegyseg Eocen Koralljai [Eocene corals from the Bükk Mountains]2
- An inventory of the marine and transitional Middle/Upper Eocene deposits of the Southeastern Pyrenean Foreland Basin (NE Spain)1
- Zgornjeeocenska favna iz okolice Drnisa [Upper Eocene fauna from Drnis area]1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Goniopora octopartita 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 octopartita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Goniopora octopartita 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.
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What may have been alongside itGoniopora through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Oppenheim 1901)