Poritidae

Poritidae is a family of stony corals. Members of the family are colonial hermatypic (reef-building) corals. They are variable in size and form but most are massive, laminar or ramose as well as branching and encrusting. The corallites are compact with very little coenosteum covering the skeleton. The walls of the corallites and the septa are porous. J.E.N. Veron considers the family is not a natural grouping but is a miscellaneous collection of genera that do not fit well elsewhere.

Poritidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PoriticaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 236 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 2591 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 10 of 2591 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 2591 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 82 of 2591 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 2591 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 2591 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 28 of 2591 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 30 of 2591 occurrencesEocene — about 88 of 2591 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 248 of 2591 occurrencesMiocene — about 760 of 2591 occurrencesPliocene — about 248 of 2591 occurrencesPleistocene — about 913 of 2591 occurrences246–238 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences238–230 Mya — about 4 occurrences230–222 Mya — about 1 occurrence222–213 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences213–205 Mya — about 2 occurrences205–197 Mya — about 3 occurrences181–172 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences172–164 Mya — about 78 occurrences164–156 Mya — about 6 occurrences156–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–123 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences123–115 Mya — about 3 occurrences115–107 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences107–99 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences99–90 Mya — about 3 occurrences90–82 Mya — about 3 occurrences82–74 Mya — about 5 occurrences74–66 Mya — about 16 occurrences66–57 Mya — about 23 occurrences57–49 Mya — about 22 occurrences49–41 Mya — about 19 occurrences41–33 Mya — about 65 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 171 occurrences25–16 Mya — about 329 occurrences16–8.2 Mya — about 307 occurrences8.2–0 Mya — about 1526 occurrences237 Mya11.7 ka246 Mya0 Mya

2,591 occurrences of Poritidae 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

2,591 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

237 formations

Ironshore — 19.30°N, 81.30°WIronshore — 19.65°N, 80.10°WIronshore — 19.37°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.32°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.35°N, 81.08°WMoin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 71.28°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 71.07°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 70.80°WCulebra — 9.07°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.13°N, 79.62°WCulebra — 9.76°N, 79.68°WIsla Colon — 9.37°N, 82.23°WIsla Colon — 9.42°N, 82.32°WIsla Colon — 9.30°N, 82.10°WIsla Colon — 9.35°N, 82.17°WAnguilla — 18.23°N, 63.07°WSeroe Domi — 12.10°N, 68.90°WSeroe Domi — 12.14°N, 68.99°WAntigua — 17.03°N, 61.68°WAntigua — 17.12°N, 61.85°WAntigua — 17.10°N, 61.70°WCercado — 19.67°N, 71.40°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.18°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.08°WSan Luis — 12.50°N, 81.72°WSan Luis — 12.57°N, 81.72°WSiamaná — 12.07°N, 71.44°WSiamaná — 12.03°N, 71.42°WSiamaná — 11.83°N, 71.40°WSobe — 26.39°N, 127.73°ETamana — 10.47°N, 61.19°WTamana — 10.39°N, 61.29°WTamana — 10.33°N, 61.43°WTamana — 10.33°N, 62.42°WSalcedo — 45.77°N, 11.60°ETokelau — 17.22°S, 178.97°WTokelau — 17.32°S, 178.99°WCastro Limestone — 40.00°N, 18.42°ECastro Limestone — 39.85°N, 18.38°EValiente — 9.13°N, 81.90°WValiente — 9.15°N, 81.94°WLower Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.42°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.88°N, 14.48°EMao — 19.55°N, 71.27°WMao — 19.57°N, 71.27°WMao — 19.53°N, 71.18°WNaha — 26.12°N, 127.70°ESalayar — 6.18°S, 120.43°ESalayar — 5.90°S, 120.50°ESalayar — 6.08°S, 120.48°EOld Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°WCastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.55°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.52°N, 11.48°ECastelgomberto — 45.75°N, 11.50°E

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The named rock units Poritidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 213 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,220 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Poritidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Poritidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,826 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 827 sites for Poritidae, and this reads 240 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

471 references

Each of the 2,591 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. 459 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 content1

Picture of Poritidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Copyrighted free use
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1840