Madrepora (Amphihelia)

Amphihelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849, a relative of Madrepora (Amphihelia) — not Madrepora (Amphihelia) itself

Not Madrepora (Amphihelia). This is Amphihelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849, a relative — both are Oculinidae.

Eastern Telegraph Company · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
MadreporaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Madrepora
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Faviina
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Oculinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesOligocene — about 5 of 11 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 11 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.3–8.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.2–7.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.2–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–5.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.1–4.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.0–3.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27.3 Mya5.333 Mya34.5 Mya3 Mya

11 occurrences of Madrepora (Amphihelia) on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

11 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

2 formations

Termofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°EGelingseh — 1.07°N, 117.85°E

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The named rock units Madrepora (Amphihelia) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Madrepora (Amphihelia) and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Madrepora (Amphihelia) and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

298 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Madrepora (Amphihelia), 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

5 references

Each of the 11 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

Media content1

Picture of Amphihelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849

Source
GBIF
Credit
Eastern Telegraph Company
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Madrepora (Amphihelia) 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 itMadrepora through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1857)