Porites colonensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PoritesPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Poritidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Poritidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Poritidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Poritidae
Time the record covers
At most 1.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Porites colonensis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
10 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
2 formations
- Moin Formation · Limon Group9
- Urraca Formation1
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The named rock units Porites colonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Porites colonensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Porites colonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Agaricia agaricites9 sites
- Montastraea cylindrica9 sites
- Madracis decactis8 sites
- Agaricia lamarcki7 sites
- Agaricia undata7 sites
- Stephanocoenia duncani7 sites
- Stephanocoenia intersepta7 sites
- Agaricia grahamae6 sites
- Madracis asperula6 sites
- Manicina areolata6 sites
- Colpophyllia natans4 sites
- Madracis myriaster4 sites
- Orbicella limbata4 sites
- Placocyathus variabilis4 sites
- Scolymia cubensis4 sites
- Dichocoenia stokesi3 sites
- Manicina puntagordensis3 sites
- Montastraea endothecata3 sites
- Mussa angulosa3 sites
- Mycetophyllia reesi3 sites
- Porites astreoides3 sites
- Eusmilia fastigiata2 sites
- Leptoseris cucullata2 sites
- Meandrina meandrites2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Porites colonensis, 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- Pliocene to Pleistocene reef coral assemblages in the Limon Group of Costa Rica9
- Neogene reef coral assemblages of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama: the rise of Acropora palmata1
Each of the 10 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 content1
Picture of Porites colonensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Porites colonensis was found in Sketchfab.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPorites through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zlatarski 1990