Lithophyllia grandissima
No picture of Lithophyllia grandissima 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 Lithophyllia grandissima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LithophylliaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Faviina
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Faviina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 9.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Lithophyllia grandissima on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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.
Lithophyllia grandissima and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Lithophyllia grandissima and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Platygyra daedalea3 sites
- Cyathoseris crassilamellata2 sites
- Cyathoseris lophiophora2 sites
- Diploastrea heliopora2 sites
- Favites pentagona2 sites
- Fungia2 sites
- Fungia pseudoechinata2 sites
- Galaxea astreata2 sites
- Lobophyllia corymbosa2 sites
- Lobophyllia costata2 sites
- Merulina ampliata2 sites
- Pachyseris curvata2 sites
- Seriatopora2 sites
- Acropora1 site
- Acropora duncani1 site
- Actinastrea minutissima1 site
- Alveopora1 site
- Alveopora polyacantha1 site
- Antillophyllia constricta1 site
- Astreopora myriophthalma1 site
- Blastomussa simplicitexta1 site
- Coelastrea1 site
- Ctenactis echinata1 site
- Cycloseris cyclolites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lithophyllia grandissima, 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
2 references- Corals from the Upper Miocene of Tjisande, Java.2
- Die Anthozoenfauna des Jungtertiärs von Borneo [Anthozoa from the Upper Tertiary of Borneo]1
Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Lithophyllia grandissima 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 Lithophyllia grandissima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lithophyllia grandissima 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLithophyllia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Felix 1921