Porites porites

Porites porites, commonly known as hump coral or finger coral, is a species of stony coral in the genus Porites. It is found in the Caribbean Sea and western Atlantic Ocean and also along the coast of West Africa.

Porites porites

Jstuby at en.wikipedia · Public Domain · 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
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 least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 94 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 94 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 94 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 76 of 94 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 68 occurrences20.45 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

94 occurrences of Porites porites 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

94 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

Ironshore — 19.65°N, 80.10°WIronshore — 19.30°N, 81.33°WIronshore — 19.38°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.32°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.35°N, 81.08°WSan Luis — 12.50°N, 81.72°WSan Luis — 12.57°N, 81.72°WIsla Colon — 9.41°N, 82.31°WManchioneal — 18.19°N, 76.43°WMoin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WLa Cruz — 20.00°N, 75.85°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WCaloosahatchee — 26.73°N, 81.48°WKey Largo Limestone/Miami Oolite — 24.67°N, 81.57°WHato — 12.13°N, 68.98°WKey Largo Limestone — 25.13°N, 80.38°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WSeroe Domi — 12.46°N, 69.95°WSeroe Domi — 12.07°N, 68.88°W

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The named rock units Porites porites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Porites porites and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Porites porites and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

263 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Porites porites, 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

29 references

Each of the 94 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. 17 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 Porites porites

Credit
Jstuby at en.wikipedia
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Porites sp. · USyD:FOSSIL CORAL REEF CORE:MODERN PORITES CORAL

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 itPorites through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pallas 1766)