Meandrina meandrites

Meandrina meandrites, commonly known as maze coral, is a species of colonial stony coral in the family Meandrinidae. It is found primarily on outer coral reef slopes in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.

Meandrina meandrites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MeandrinaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Faviina
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Faviina
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 39 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 39 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 39 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 35 of 39 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 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 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 20 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

39 occurrences of Meandrina meandrites 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

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

13 formations

Moin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.05°WIronshore — 19.37°N, 81.42°WIronshore — 19.27°N, 81.38°WSan Luis — 12.50°N, 81.72°WSan Luis — 12.57°N, 81.72°WUrraca — 9.38°N, 82.24°WUrraca — 9.45°N, 82.30°WUrraca — 9.43°N, 82.28°WWhite Wall — 17.47°N, 62.96°WManchioneal — 18.19°N, 76.43°WHope Gate — 18.47°N, 77.40°WIsla Colon — 9.37°N, 82.23°WCaloosahatchee — 26.73°N, 81.48°WKey Largo Limestone/Miami Oolite — 24.67°N, 81.57°WHato — 12.30°N, 69.13°WOld Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°WLowlands — 18.05°N, 63.13°W

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The named rock units Meandrina meandrites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meandrina meandrites and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Meandrina meandrites and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

67 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Meandrina meandrites, 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

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. 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

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Picture of Meandrina meandrites

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3D model

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Sketchfab
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CC0 Public Domain
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Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMeandrina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)