Orbicella

Orbicella

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
MerulinidaePBDB
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 346 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 0 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 703 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 703 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 703 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 703 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 703 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 703 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 703 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 703 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 703 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 703 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 703 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 703 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 703 occurrencesOligocene — about 8 of 703 occurrencesMiocene — about 74 of 703 occurrencesPliocene — about 73 of 703 occurrencesPleistocene — about 507 of 703 occurrences366–354 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences354–342 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–24 Mya — about 8 occurrences24–12 Mya — about 30 occurrences12–0 Mya — about 664 occurrences346.7 Mya11.7 ka366 Mya0 Mya

703 occurrences of Orbicella 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

703 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

48 formations

Hato — 12.28°N, 69.07°WHato — 12.37°N, 69.10°WHato — 12.23°N, 69.02°WHato — 12.17°N, 68.88°WHato — 12.20°N, 69.08°WHato — 12.13°N, 68.98°WSan Luis — 12.50°N, 81.72°WSan Luis — 12.57°N, 81.72°WIronshore — 19.28°N, 81.35°WIronshore — 19.30°N, 81.20°WIronshore — 19.65°N, 80.10°WIronshore — 19.37°N, 81.38°WIronshore — 19.32°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.35°N, 81.08°WMoin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WSeroe Domi — 12.10°N, 68.90°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.30°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 71.07°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.18°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.27°WUrraca — 9.38°N, 82.24°WUrraca — 9.45°N, 82.30°WUrraca — 9.43°N, 82.32°WIsla Colon — 9.30°N, 82.10°WIsla Colon — 9.41°N, 82.31°WIsla Colon — 9.35°N, 82.17°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WOld Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°WKey Largo — 24.73°N, 80.97°WKey Largo — 24.75°N, 80.95°WKey Largo — 24.93°N, 80.60°WKey Largo — 25.17°N, 80.37°WKey Largo — 25.17°N, 80.35°WKey Largo — 24.82°N, 80.80°WMao — 19.55°N, 71.27°WMao — 19.52°N, 71.13°WMao — 19.53°N, 71.18°WMao — 19.57°N, 71.28°WKey Largo Limestone — 25.13°N, 80.38°WKey Largo Limestone — 24.93°N, 80.58°WTamana — 10.39°N, 61.29°WTamana — 10.33°N, 61.43°WTamana — 10.33°N, 62.42°WWhite Wall — 17.47°N, 62.96°WPort Morant — 17.87°N, 76.32°WRio Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WManchioneal — 18.19°N, 76.43°WHope Gate — 18.47°N, 77.40°WLas Cahobas — 18.51°N, 72.27°WRiviere Gauche — 18.37°N, 72.65°WLucayan — 24.65°N, 79.11°WFalmouth — 18.50°N, 77.33°W

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The named rock units Orbicella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 279 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orbicella and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Orbicella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

668 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 203 sites for Orbicella, 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

87 references

Each of the 703 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. 75 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 Orbicella

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dana 1846