Pavona venosa

Benzoni, F. · CC BY 3.0 · 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.
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 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.
4 occurrences of Pavona venosa on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
4 occurrences- Miocene25%
- Pliocene25%
- Pleistocene25%
- Holocene25%
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
3 formations
- Era Beds Formation1
- Hateruma Formation · Ryukyu Group1
- Tokelau Formation1
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The named rock units Pavona venosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pavona venosa and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pavona venosa and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
135 taxa- Cyphastrea serailia2 sites
- Diploastrea heliopora2 sites
- Dipsastraea favus2 sites
- Dipsastraea pallida2 sites
- Echinophyllia aspera2 sites
- Favites chinensis2 sites
- Favites flexuosa2 sites
- Favites pentagona2 sites
- Fungia2 sites
- Galaxea fascicularis2 sites
- Gardineroseris planulata2 sites
- Goniastrea retiformis2 sites
- Hydnophora exesa2 sites
- Isopora palifera2 sites
- Leptastrea transversa2 sites
- Leptoria phrygia2 sites
- Pachyseris rugosa2 sites
- Pachyseris speciosa2 sites
- Pavona varians2 sites
- Platygyra pini2 sites
- Platygyra sinensis2 sites
- Plesiastrea versipora2 sites
- Pocillopora eydouxi2 sites
- Pocillopora verrucosa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pavona venosa, 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
4 references- Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-Pacific reef corals throughout the Neogene1
- Model of fringing reef development in response to progressive sea level fall over the last 7000 years (Kikai-jima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan)1
- Coral species stability in reef corals of Papua New Guinea and the Indo-Pacific1
- Community Structures of Recent and Pleistocene Hermatypic Corals in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan1
Each of the 4 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 Pavona venosa
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Benzoni, F.
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- 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 and MorphoSource were 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 itPavona through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ehrenberg 1834)