Lithophyllon concinna

Joi Ito · CC BY 2.0 · 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
- LithophyllonPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Fungiidae
- Life habit
- epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Fungiidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Fungiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Fungiidae
Time the record covers
At least 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.
18 occurrences of Lithophyllon concinna 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
18 occurrences- Pliocene31%
- Pleistocene69%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Lithophyllon concinna has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lithophyllon concinna and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Lithophyllon concinna and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
256 taxa- Goniastrea retiformis5 sites
- Cycloseris cyclolites4 sites
- Favites abdita4 sites
- Fungia inaequicostata4 sites
- Galaxea fascicularis4 sites
- Leptastrea purpurea4 sites
- Leptoria phrygia4 sites
- Lobophyllia corymbosa4 sites
- Platygyra daedalea4 sites
- Seriatopora hystrix4 sites
- Blastomussa simplicitexta3 sites
- Ctenactis echinata3 sites
- Cyathoseris lophiophora3 sites
- Cyphastrea serailia3 sites
- Dictyaraea anomala3 sites
- Diploastrea heliopora3 sites
- Dipsastraea favus3 sites
- Dipsastraea speciosa3 sites
- Favites pentagona3 sites
- Fungia3 sites
- Galaxea astreata3 sites
- Goniastrea stelligera3 sites
- Hydnophora microconos3 sites
- Lithophyllon repanda3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Lithophyllon concinna, 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
11 references- Facies, Fossil Record, and Age of Pleistocene Reefs from the Red Sea (Saudi Arabia)5
- Ricerche eseguite negli anni 1941-1942 sopra i Coralli delle scogliere emerse di Massaua e Gibuti [Research done between 1941 and 1942 on emersed coral reefs of Massawa and Djibouti]3
- Corals from a lower Pliocene patch reef in Central Java2
- Contributions to the Pleistocene coral reefs of the Red Sea coast, Egypt1
- Stratigraphy, palaeoenvironments and model for the deposition of the Abdur Reef Limestone: context for an important archaeological site from the last interglacial on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea1
- Coral species stability in reef corals of Papua New Guinea and the Indo-Pacific1
- Les Madreporaires fossiles de Mare [The fossil corals from Mare]1
- Corals from the Putjangan beds (Lower Pleistocene) of Java1
- Corals from the Upper Kalibeng beds (Upper Pliocene) of Java1
- Corals from an elevated marl of Talaud (East Indies)1
- Report on Pleistocene and Pliocene corals from Ceram1
Each of the 18 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 Lithophyllon concinna
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Joi Ito
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLithophyllon through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Verrill 1864)