Orbicella faveolata

Orbicella faveolata, commonly known as mountainous star coral, is a colonial stony coral in the family Merulinidae. Orbicella faveolata is native to the coral coast of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and is listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. O. faveolata was formerly known as Montastraea faveolata.

Orbicella faveolata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrbicellaPBDB
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 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 111 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 111 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 89 of 111 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 11 of 111 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.6–4.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.9–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.5–1.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.3–1.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.0–775 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 85 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

111 occurrences of Orbicella faveolata 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

111 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

7 formations

Hato — 12.37°N, 69.10°WHato — 12.23°N, 69.02°WHato — 12.17°N, 68.88°WHato — 12.30°N, 69.13°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°WSeroe Domi — 12.13°N, 68.95°WUrraca — 9.38°N, 82.24°WUrraca — 9.45°N, 82.30°WUrraca — 9.43°N, 82.32°WOld Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°WHope Gate — 18.47°N, 77.40°WIsla Colon — 9.35°N, 82.17°W

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The named rock units Orbicella faveolata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 53 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orbicella faveolata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Orbicella faveolata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

68 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Orbicella faveolata, 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

11 references

Each of the 111 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

Media content2

Picture of Orbicella faveolata

Credit
NOAA
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Everything alive alongside itOrbicella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ellis and Solander 1786)