Leptoseris yabei

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 645 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
8 occurrences of Leptoseris yabei 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- Pleistocene100%
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
- Takanasaki Formation · Ryukyu Group1
- Dayrell Formation · Herald Group1
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The named rock units Leptoseris yabei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Leptoseris yabei and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Leptoseris yabei and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
3 taxa- Favites valenciennesii1 site
- Goniastrea pectinata1 site
- Lobactis scutaria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Leptoseris yabei, 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
5 references- Variations in Pleistocene coral assemblages in space and time in southern and northern central Ryukyu Islands, Japan4
- Pleistocene reef development in the southwest Ryukyu Islands, Japan1
- Stratigraphy and paleontology of Pleistocene submarine volcanic-sedimentary sequences at the northern Kermadec Islands1
- Facies, Fossil Record, and Age of Pleistocene Reefs from the Red Sea (Saudi Arabia)1
- Community Structures of Recent and Pleistocene Hermatypic Corals in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan1
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 Leptoseris yabei
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Benzoni, F.
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Leptoseris yabei 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 itLeptoseris through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pillai and Scheer 1976)