Leptoseris

Leptoseris is a genus of corals belonging to the family Agariciidae.

Leptoseris

Benzoni, F. · 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
AgariciidaePBDB
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 least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 8 of 179 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 31 of 179 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 52 of 179 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 19 of 179 occurrencesPleistocene — about 63 of 179 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–26 Mya — about 7 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 10 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 10 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 8 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 8 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 8 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 8 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 11 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 19 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 56 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

179 occurrences of Leptoseris 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

179 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

44 formations

Moin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.07°WLower Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.44°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.83°N, 14.44°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.88°N, 14.48°ECulebra — 9.07°N, 79.68°WMoneague — 18.40°N, 77.37°WMoneague — 17.95°N, 77.38°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WQom — 31.50°N, 52.73°EQom — 32.95°N, 52.14°EQom — 29.31°N, 56.18°ENias — 1.12°N, 97.62°ENias — 1.38°N, 97.30°EUrraca — 9.38°N, 82.24°WUrraca — 9.43°N, 82.32°WUrraca — 9.45°N, 82.30°WTokelau — 17.22°S, 178.97°WGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°ESan Andres — 12.53°N, 81.70°WAntigua — 17.12°N, 61.80°WAntigua — 17.07°N, 61.73°WAnguilla — 18.23°N, 63.07°WTamana — 10.34°N, 61.43°WTamana — 10.47°N, 61.22°WGuayanilla — 18.02°N, 66.78°WGuayanilla — 17.97°N, 66.92°WNaha — 26.41°N, 127.74°EIsla Colon — 9.37°N, 82.23°WIsla Colon — 9.42°N, 82.32°WSobe — 26.39°N, 127.73°EGashr Ghand — 26.02°N, 61.01°EDarkhunish — 26.53°N, 57.58°EBatu Putih Limestone — 0.47°S, 117.12°ELa Quinta — 17.12°N, 92.88°WManchioneal — 18.18°N, 76.42°WProgo Beds — 7.65°S, 110.05°E

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The named rock units Leptoseris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 72 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leptoseris and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Leptoseris and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

566 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 82 sites for Leptoseris, 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

74 references

Each of the 179 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. 62 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 content3

Picture of Leptoseris

Credit
Benzoni, F.
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D scan

Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it
Specimen
Leptoseris paschalensis

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itAgariciidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849