Pavona danai
via iDigBio · via iDigBio. 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
- PavonaPBDB
- 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 2.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
3 occurrences of Pavona danai on record. 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
3 occurrences- Miocene67%
- Pleistocene33%
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 the same rock
67 taxa- Platygyra2 sites
- Stylophora2 sites
- Stylophora pistillata2 sites
- Acanthastrea hemprichii1 site
- Acropora1 site
- Acropora duncani1 site
- Acropora fennemai1 site
- Alveopora verrilliana1 site
- Anisocoenia variabilis1 site
- Antillophyllia constricta1 site
- Caulastrea tumida1 site
- Ceratophyllia gigantea1 site
- Colpophyllia malayica1 site
- Coscinaraea1 site
- Cynaria lacrymalis1 site
- Cyphastrea chalcidicum1 site
- Cyphastrea gemmulifera1 site
- Cyphastrea japonica1 site
- Cyphastrea serailia1 site
- Dipsastraea pallida1 site
- Dipsastraea speciosa1 site
- Duncanopsammia peltata1 site
- Echinophyllia1 site
- Echinophyllia robusta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pavona danai, 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
2 references- Die Anthozoenfauna des Jungtertiärs von Borneo [Anthozoa from the Upper Tertiary of Borneo]2
- Taxonomic vetting of Pleistocene coral occurrence data1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Pavona danai
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Pavona danai was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPavona through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1860