Leptoseris glabra

Leptoseris glabra

Benzoni, F. · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
LeptoserisPBDB
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 4.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 774 ka.

Miocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.8–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–9.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.0–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–8.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.2–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–7.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.0–6.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.6–6.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.2–5.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.8–5.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.4–5.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.8–3.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.4–3.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.3–1.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.9–1.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.5–1.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.1–669 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.246 Mya2.58 Mya12.1 Mya274 ka

5 occurrences of Leptoseris glabra on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

5 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

1 formation

Urraca — 9.43°N, 82.28°W

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The named rock units Leptoseris glabra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Leptoseris glabra and its relatives

Miocene

Where Leptoseris glabra and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Leptoseris glabra, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Leptoseris glabra

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

No 3D scan of Leptoseris glabra was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLeptoseris through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dinesen 1980