Montipora

Montipora

Uncredited · 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
AcroporidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Acroporidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Acroporidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 235 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 235 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 235 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 235 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 18 of 235 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 235 occurrencesPleistocene — about 147 of 235 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.4–4.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 15 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 192 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

235 occurrences of Montipora 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

235 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

Sobe — 26.39°N, 127.73°ENaha — 26.12°N, 127.70°ESalayar — 6.18°S, 120.43°ESalayar — 5.90°S, 120.50°ESalayar — 6.08°S, 120.48°ENias — 1.12°N, 97.62°ENias — 1.03°N, 97.75°ENias — 0.87°N, 97.68°EMerizo — 13.23°N, 144.72°EGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°EHateruma — 24.04°N, 123.79°EYalam — 4.47°S, 151.88°ETokelau — 17.22°S, 178.97°WTokelau — 17.32°S, 178.99°WRyukyu — 24.05°N, 123.78°EChaya — 22.42°N, 69.00°EDarkhunish — 26.53°N, 57.58°EAntigua — 17.03°N, 61.73°WQom — 31.50°N, 52.73°ENosoko — 24.42°N, 124.08°ENabire — 3.60°S, 135.52°EDaito — 25.45°N, 131.17°EKaigunbo — 25.45°N, 131.17°EDayrell — 29.23°S, 177.82°WMandrikovka — 48.45°N, 34.98°ECrescent — 48.15°N, 123.63°WGelingseh — 1.07°N, 117.85°EGulpen — 50.82°N, 5.70°E

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The named rock units Montipora 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. 182 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Montipora and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Montipora and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

545 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Montipora, 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

81 references

Each of the 235 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. 69 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 content2

Picture of Montipora

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itAcroporidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blainville 1830