Mussismilia harttii

Dornicke · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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.

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MussismiliaPBDB

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

• Miocene10%
• Pliocene27%
• Pleistocene43%
• Holocene20%

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.

Where Mussismilia harttii and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Agaricia agaricites6 sites
• Porites furcata5 sites
• Siderastrea siderea5 sites
• Acropora palmata4 sites
• Dichocoenia stokesi4 sites
• Orbicella limbata4 sites
• Pseudodiploria strigosa4 sites
• Acropora cervicornis3 sites
• Caulastrea portoricensis3 sites
• Colpophyllia natans3 sites
• Manicina areolata3 sites
• Montastraea3 sites
• Montastraea franksi3 sites
• Stephanocoenia duncani3 sites
• Agaricia2 sites
• Colpophyllia amaranthus2 sites
• Madracis myriaster2 sites
• Millepora2 sites
• Montastraea cavernosa2 sites
• Montastraea cylindrica2 sites
• Montastraea faveolata2 sites
• Mussismilia braziliensis2 sites
• Placocyathus variabilis2 sites
• Porites2 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Mussismilia harttii, 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.

• Pliocene to Pleistocene reef coral assemblages in the Limon Group of Costa RicaBudd et al., 1999 · Bulletins of American Paleontology · serial monograph6
• Neogene reef coral assemblages of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama: the rise of Acropora palmataKlaus et al., 2012 · Coral Reefs · journal article2
• The status of eastern Brazil coral reefs during the last 5000 yearsLeao et al., 2006 · Proceedings of the 10th International Coral Reef Symposium · journal article1
• A relic coral fauna threatened by global changes and human activities, eastern BrazilLeao and Kikuchi, 2005 · Marine Pollution Bulletin · journal article1

Each of the 10 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Verrill 1868)