Pseudodiploria strigosa

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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

• Miocene3%
• Pliocene12%
• Pleistocene80%
• Holocene5%

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.

Where Pseudodiploria strigosa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Acropora cervicornis40 sites
• Acropora palmata34 sites
• Agaricia agaricites33 sites
• Siderastrea siderea28 sites
• Porites astreoides27 sites
• Colpophyllia natans21 sites
• Orbicella annularis21 sites
• Orbicella limbata21 sites
• Pseudodiploria clivosa21 sites
• Manicina areolata19 sites
• Porites furcata19 sites
• Caulastrea portoricensis17 sites
• Stylophora granulata17 sites
• Madracis decactis16 sites
• Dichocoenia stokesi15 sites
• Diploria labyrinthiformis15 sites
• Montastraea faveolata15 sites
• Solenastrea bournoni14 sites
• Stylophora affinis14 sites
• Montastrea cavernosa13 sites
• Orbicella faveolata13 sites
• Porites baracoaensis12 sites
• Stephanocoenia intersepta12 sites
• Montastraea cavernosa11 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 69 sites for Pseudodiploria strigosa, 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.

• Community structure of Pleistocene coral reefs of Curacao, Netherlands AntillesPandolfi, 2001 · Ecological Monographs · journal article41
• Pliocene to Pleistocene reef coral assemblages in the Limon Group of Costa RicaBudd et al., 1999 · Bulletins of American Paleontology · serial monograph26
• Coral associations of the Pleistocene Ironshore Formation, Grand CaymanHunter and Jones, 1996 · Coral Reefs · journal article26
• Broad-scale patterns in Pleistocene coral reef communities from the Caribbean: implications for ecology and managementPandolfi and Jackson, 2007 · Geological approaches to coral reef ecology. Ecological Studies · book/book chapter22
• Ecological persistence interrupted in Caribbean coral reefsPandolfi and Jackson, 2006 · Ecology Letters · journal article22
• Neogene reef coral assemblages of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama: the rise of Acropora palmataKlaus et al., 2012 · Coral Reefs · journal article18
• Origination preceding extinction during late Cenozoic turnover of Caribbean reefsBudd and Johnson, 1999 · Paleobiology · journal article18
• Overlapping species boundaries and hybridization within the Montastrea "annularis" reef coral complex in the Pleistocene of the Bahama IslandsBudd and Pandolfi, 2004 · Paleobiology · journal article11
• Shifting ecological baselines and the demise of Acropora cervicornis in the western North Atlantic and Caribbean Province: a Pleistocene perspectiveGreenstein et al., 1998 · Coral Reefs · journal article7
• The geology of Saba and St. Eustatius, with notes on the geology of St. Kitts, Nevis and Montserrat (Lesser Antilles)Westermann and Kiel, 1961 · Natuurwetenschappelijke Studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen · journal article4
• Sea-level history of the past two interglacial periods: new evidence from U-series dating of reef corals from south FloridaMuhs et al., 2011 · Quaternary Science Reviews · journal article3
• Holocene reef development along the northeastern St. Croix shelf, Buck Island, US Virgin IslandsHubbard et al., 2005 · Journal of Sedimentary Research · journal article3

Each of the 235 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. 25 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.

What may have been alongside itPseudodiploria through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dana 1846)