Pseudodiploria clivosa

Pseudodiploria clivosa, the knobby brain coral, is a colonial species of stony coral in the family Mussidae. It occurs in shallow water in the West Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea.

Pseudodiploria clivosa

Jstuby at English 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
PseudodiploriaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Faviina
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Faviina
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 4 of 91 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 16 of 91 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 65 of 91 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 6 of 91 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.6–4.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.9–3.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.3–1.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.0–775 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 52 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

91 occurrences of Pseudodiploria clivosa 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

91 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

13 formations

Hato — 12.28°N, 69.07°WHato — 12.37°N, 69.10°WHato — 12.23°N, 69.02°WHato — 12.17°N, 68.88°WHato — 12.20°N, 69.08°WHato — 12.13°N, 68.98°WSeroe Domi — 12.10°N, 68.90°WIronshore — 19.37°N, 81.37°WIronshore — 19.35°N, 81.08°WIronshore — 19.27°N, 81.38°WIronshore — 19.27°N, 81.33°WIronshore — 19.28°N, 81.15°WIsla Colon — 9.42°N, 82.30°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WMoin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WOld Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°WSan Luis — 12.53°N, 81.70°WUrraca — 9.38°N, 82.24°WUrraca — 9.43°N, 82.32°WManchioneal — 18.18°N, 76.42°WCaloosahatchee — 26.73°N, 81.48°WKey Largo Limestone/Miami Oolite — 24.67°N, 81.57°WGrotto Beach — 24.03°N, 74.52°W

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The named rock units Pseudodiploria clivosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudodiploria clivosa and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pseudodiploria clivosa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

134 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Pseudodiploria clivosa, 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

21 references

Each of the 91 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. 9 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 Pseudodiploria clivosa

Credit
Jstuby at English Wikipedia
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Public Domain
Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC0 Public Domain
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The description on this site

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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. (Ellis and Solander 1786)