Madracis asperula

Madracis asperula

Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012) · 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
MadracisPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Madracis
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Madracis
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Astrocoeniidae

Time the record covers

At most 1.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pliocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesPleistocene — about 19 of 19 occurrencesPleistocene2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.1–2.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.1–1.0 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.0–929 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences929 ka–835 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences835 ka–742 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.08 Mya274 ka

19 occurrences of Madracis asperula on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

19 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

3 formations

Moin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WSwan Cay — 9.43°N, 82.30°WUrraca — 9.45°N, 82.30°W

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The named rock units Madracis asperula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Madracis asperula and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Madracis asperula and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

47 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Madracis asperula, 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

Each of the 19 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 Madracis asperula

Credit
Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012)
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Madracis asperula 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 itMadracis through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850