Montastraea endothecata

Montastraea endothecata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MontastraeaPBDB
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 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 774 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 89 occurrencesOligocene — about 19 of 89 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 51 of 89 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 89 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 89 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 5 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 7 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 7 occurrences8.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.0–5.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.9–4.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.7–3.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.6–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–1.3 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.3–111 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences27.3 Mya2.58 Mya34.6 Mya111 ka

89 occurrences of Montastraea endothecata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

89 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

25 formations

Valiente — 9.13°N, 81.90°WValiente — 9.15°N, 81.94°WAnguilla — 18.23°N, 63.07°WMoin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WSiamaná — 12.07°N, 71.44°WAntigua — 17.05°N, 61.73°WAntigua — 17.12°N, 61.80°WAntigua — 17.07°N, 61.73°WCulebra — 9.07°N, 79.68°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.30°WMao — 19.55°N, 71.27°WMao — 19.53°N, 71.18°WOld Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°WTamana — 10.34°N, 61.43°WTamana — 10.42°N, 61.25°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.72°WLa Quinta — 17.12°N, 92.88°WLa Quinta — 17.13°N, 92.68°WMoneague — 18.40°N, 77.37°WMoneague — 17.95°N, 77.38°WSan Andres — 12.53°N, 81.70°WChattahoochee — 30.85°N, 84.62°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.23°N, 82.18°WRancho Berlin Sandstone — 16.85°N, 92.92°WRio Lajas Limestone — 16.83°N, 92.92°WAgua Clara — 11.00°N, 70.33°WCastillo — 11.00°N, 70.50°WPedregoso — 11.08°N, 69.93°WIsla Colon — 9.35°N, 82.17°WTabera — 19.60°N, 70.82°W

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The named rock units Montastraea endothecata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Montastraea endothecata and its relatives

Miocene

Where Montastraea endothecata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

333 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Montastraea endothecata, 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

19 references

Each of the 89 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. 6 further references are 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 Montastraea endothecata

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Duncan 1863