Javania

Javania is a genus of marine corals belonging to the family Flabellidae, which was first described in 1876 by Peter Martin Duncan.

Javania

Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012) · CC BY 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
FlabellidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Flabellidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunal, solitaryPBDB, for Flabellidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Flabellidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Flabellidae

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 8 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences33.9 Mya129 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

8 occurrences of Javania 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

8 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

3 formations

Brèches rouges de Carboneras — 37.60°N, 1.32°WTermofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°ESicilian — 38.15°N, 15.65°E

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The named rock units Javania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Javania and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Javania and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

382 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Javania, 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

7 references

Each of the 8 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. 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 content1

Picture of Javania

Credit
Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012)
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Javania 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.

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 itFlabellidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Duncan 1876