Heliopora

Heliopora is a genus of cnidarians in the family Helioporidae. The genus consists of reef building corals, and is ancient and highly conserved. The species Heliopora coerulea is also known as "blue coral".

Heliopora

User:Haplochromis · Public Domain · 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
HelioporaceaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Helioporacea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Helioporacea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Helioporacea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Helioporacea

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 67 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 18 of 67 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 67 occurrencesEocene — about 12 of 67 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 67 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 11 of 67 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 67 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 67 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 5 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 4 occurrences90–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 16 occurrences121.4 Mya11.7 ka128 Mya0 Mya

67 occurrences of Heliopora on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

67 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

18 formations

Korycany — 50.27°N, 14.48°EKorycany — 49.97°N, 15.15°EKorycany — 50.20°N, 14.43°EGatuncillo — 9.25°N, 79.63°WGatuncillo — 9.18°N, 79.55°WSimsima — 25.72°N, 55.82°ESimsima — 25.02°N, 55.78°EBila hora — 50.02°N, 15.08°EBila hora — 50.20°N, 14.32°ESan Juan — 16.67°N, 93.08°WBranderfleck — 47.63°N, 11.67°EBateque — 26.50°N, 112.73°WGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°EBatu Putih — 0.47°S, 117.12°ETagpochau — 15.18°N, 145.76°EVallcarga — 42.25°N, 0.97°EGrodziszcze — 49.87°N, 19.77°ELuza — 49.10°N, 31.97°ECoamo — 18.33°N, 66.32°WMerizo — 13.23°N, 144.72°EGelingseh — 1.07°N, 117.85°EAntigua — 17.07°N, 61.70°Wsachun — 29.19°N, 52.88°E

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The named rock units Heliopora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heliopora and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Heliopora and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

583 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Heliopora, 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

44 references

Each of the 67 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. 32 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 Heliopora

Credit
User:Haplochromis
Licence
Public Domain
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 itHelioporacea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.