Leptoria spenceri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeptoriaPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Leptoria spenceri 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
4 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
2 formations
- Moneague Formation · White Limestone Group2
- Los Bagres Formation1
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The named rock units Leptoria spenceri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Leptoria spenceri and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Leptoria spenceri and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
72 taxa- Diploastrea crassolamellata3 sites
- Acropora panamensis2 sites
- Acropora saludensis2 sites
- Actinacis barretti2 sites
- Agathiphyllia hilli2 sites
- Agathiphyllia tenuis2 sites
- Alveopora2 sites
- Alveopora tampae2 sites
- Antiguastrea cellulosa2 sites
- Astrocoenia incrustans2 sites
- Astrocoenia portoricoensis2 sites
- Caulastrea portoricensis2 sites
- Colpophyllia duncani2 sites
- Colpophyllia willoughbiensis2 sites
- Diploastrea2 sites
- Diploria portoricensis2 sites
- Leptoseris2 sites
- Leptoseris portoricensis2 sites
- Millepora2 sites
- Montastraea2 sites
- Montastraea endothecata2 sites
- Montastrea cylindrica2 sites
- Montastrea endothecata2 sites
- Parapolytremacis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Leptoria spenceri, 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- Reef corals of the White Limestone Group of Jamaica2
- A new genus of scleractinian coral from the Early Tertiary of Venezuela1
- Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs1
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. 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 Leptoria spenceri 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 Leptoria spenceri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leptoria spenceri 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 itLeptoria through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vaughan 1919