Lobophyllia hemprichii

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LobophylliaPBDB
- 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 5.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 0 Mya.
16 occurrences of Lobophyllia hemprichii 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
16 occurrences- Miocene13%
- Pliocene16%
- Pleistocene66%
- Holocene6%
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
6 formations
- Salayar Formation2
- Era Beds Formation1
- Nabire Formation1
- Naha Formation · Ryukyu Group1
- Numa Formation1
- Nias Formation1
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The named rock units Lobophyllia hemprichii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lobophyllia hemprichii and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Lobophyllia hemprichii and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
160 taxa- Cyphastrea serailia4 sites
- Porites4 sites
- Hydnophora exesa3 sites
- Pachyseris rugosa3 sites
- Pavona varians3 sites
- Plesiastrea versipora3 sites
- Pocillopora damicornis3 sites
- Psammocora columna3 sites
- Seriatopora hystrix3 sites
- Acanthastrea2 sites
- Acanthastrea echinata2 sites
- Acropora muricata2 sites
- Astreopora2 sites
- Cycloseris cyclolites2 sites
- Cycloseris patelliformis2 sites
- Cynarina lacrymalis2 sites
- Cyphastrea chalcidicum2 sites
- Diploastrea heliopora2 sites
- Dipsastraea favus2 sites
- Dipsastraea pallida2 sites
- Duncanopsammia peltata2 sites
- Echinophyllia aspera2 sites
- Echinopora2 sites
- Favia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Lobophyllia hemprichii, 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
13 references- Variations in Pleistocene coral assemblages in space and time in southern and northern central Ryukyu Islands, Japan3
- Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-Pacific reef corals throughout the Neogene2
- Symbiosis in the Fossil Record: Eocene Nummulites and Pleistocene Reefs of Egypt1
- Field work Vanuatu1
- Field work Sinai1
- Interstadial coral reef terraces and relative sea-level changes during marine oxygen isotope stages 3-4, Kikai Island, central Ryukyus, Japan1
- Environmental control of Holocene changes to the world's most northern hermatypic coral outcrop1
- Facies, Fossil Record, and Age of Pleistocene Reefs from the Red Sea (Saudi Arabia)1
- Past corals and recent reefs in Indonesia1
- Coral species stability in reef corals of Papua New Guinea and the Indo-Pacific1
- Evidence of high sea level during isotope stage 5c in Queensland, Australia1
- Ecological stratification in the Pleistocene coral reefs of the Kenya coast1
Each of the 16 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. 1 further reference is 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 content1

Picture of Lobophyllia hemprichii
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Petra
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lobophyllia hemprichii 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 itLobophyllia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ehrenberg 1834)