Montastrea trinitatis
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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 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
26 occurrences of Montastrea trinitatis 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
26 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Valiente Formation9
- Tamana Formation8
- Baitoa Formation5
- Mao Formation2
- Moneague Formation · White Limestone Group1
- Lirio Formation1
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The named rock units Montastrea trinitatis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Montastrea trinitatis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Montastrea trinitatis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
108 taxa- Porites waylandi9 sites
- Orbicella limbata8 sites
- Solenastrea bournoni7 sites
- Agaricia agaricites6 sites
- Caulastrea portoricensis6 sites
- Goniopora hilli6 sites
- Montastraea endothecata5 sites
- Porites trinitatis5 sites
- Porites astreoides4 sites
- Porites baracoaensis4 sites
- Favia dominicensis3 sites
- Goniopora imperatoris3 sites
- Montastrea brevis3 sites
- Montastrea cylindrica3 sites
- Porites portoricensis3 sites
- Psammocora trinitatis3 sites
- Stylophora affinis3 sites
- Stylophora granulata3 sites
- Stylophora minor3 sites
- Stylophora undata3 sites
- Acropora panamensis2 sites
- Acropora saludensis2 sites
- Agaricia undata2 sites
- Cancellaria (Cancellaria) rowelli2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Montastrea trinitatis, 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- Neogene reef coral assemblages of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama: the rise of Acropora palmata9
- Middle Miocene recovery of Caribbean reef corals: new data from the Tamana Formation, Trinidad8
- Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic, 11. The family Faviidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia), part 1. The genera Montastrea and Solenastrea7
- Reef corals of the White Limestone Group of Jamaica1
- Stratigraphic distributions of genera and species of Neogene to recent Carribean reef corals1
Each of the 26 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
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No picture of Montastrea trinitatis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Montastrea trinitatis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Montastrea trinitatis 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 itMontastraea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Vaughan 1926)