Madracis myriaster

Madracis myriaster

NOAA · Public Domain · 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 least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 774 ka.

Oligocene — about 1 of 39 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 39 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 39 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 28 of 39 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.4–8.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.6–6.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.7–5.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.8–4.8 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.8–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.0–2.1 Mya — about 9 occurrences2.1–1.2 Mya — about 14 occurrences1.2–243 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences23.04 Mya2.58 Mya27.8 Mya243 ka

39 occurrences of Madracis myriaster on record. 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

39 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

7 formations

Moin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WCercado — 19.67°N, 71.40°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.18°WIsla Colon — 9.30°N, 82.10°WIsla Colon — 9.42°N, 82.30°WManchioneal — 18.19°N, 76.43°WNias — 1.12°N, 97.62°ENias — 0.97°N, 97.78°EOld Pera — 17.87°N, 76.28°WOld Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°W

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The named rock units Madracis myriaster has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

113 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Madracis myriaster, 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

9 references

Each of the 39 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 myriaster

Credit
NOAA
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Madracis myriaster 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 itMadracis through timeThe world it lived on

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