Psammocora gasparillensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PsammocoraPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Siderastreidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Siderastreidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Psammocora gasparillensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Psammocora gasparillensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Psammocora gasparillensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Psammocora gasparillensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Agaricia agaricites2 sites
- Caulastrea portoricensis2 sites
- Favia dominicensis2 sites
- Montastrea brevis2 sites
- Montastrea trinitatis2 sites
- Orbicella limbata2 sites
- Porites astreoides2 sites
- Porites waylandi2 sites
- Siderastrea siderea2 sites
- Solenastrea bournoni2 sites
- Goniopora hilli1 site
- Madracis1 site
- Montastraea endothecata1 site
- Mycetophyllia bullbrooki1 site
- Porites baracoaensis1 site
- Porites trinitatis1 site
- Psammocora trinitatis1 site
- Stylophora granulata1 site
- Stylophora imperatoris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Psammocora gasparillensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Psammocora gasparillensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Psammocora gasparillensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Psammocora gasparillensis 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 itPsammocora through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vaughan 1926