Platygyra daedalea

Platygyra daedalea, sometimes known as the lesser valley coral, is a colonial species of stony coral in the family Merulinidae. It occurs on reefs in shallow water in the Indo-Pacific region. It is a common species and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of "least concern".

Platygyra daedalea

Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
PlatygyraPBDB
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.

Miocene — about 3 of 82 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 82 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 57 of 82 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 55 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

82 occurrences of Platygyra daedalea 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

82 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

15 formations

Samadai — 25.00°N, 34.93°ESamadai — 26.10°N, 34.26°ESamadai — 25.15°N, 34.85°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.25°S, 110.67°EUpper Kalibeng — 8.00°S, 114.00°ESobe — 26.39°N, 127.73°ENaha — 26.08°N, 127.68°EFarasan — 16.75°N, 42.00°EChaya — 22.44°N, 69.01°EGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°ESondé — 8.00°S, 114.00°EMiyako-jima — 24.80°N, 125.28°ENabire — 3.60°S, 135.52°ERiukiu limestone — 23.00°N, 122.00°EShagra — 25.25°N, 34.80°EMerizo — 13.23°N, 144.72°ESampolakosa — 5.56°S, 122.74°EMikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°E

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The named rock units Platygyra daedalea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 58 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Platygyra daedalea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Platygyra daedalea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

474 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Platygyra daedalea, 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

42 references

Each of the 82 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. 30 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 Platygyra daedalea

Credit
Diego Delso
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

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