Seriatopora ornata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SeriatoporaPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 28 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
21 occurrences of Seriatopora ornata 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
21 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Seriatopora ornata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Seriatopora ornata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Seriatopora ornata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
131 taxa- Seriatopora micrommata9 sites
- Stylophora pistillata9 sites
- Dictyaraea micrantha8 sites
- Alveopora polyacantha5 sites
- Heliopora5 sites
- Acropora duncani4 sites
- Actinastrea minutissima4 sites
- Pocillopora damicornis4 sites
- Stylophora sokkohensis4 sites
- Cycloseris3 sites
- Cyphastrea gemmulifera3 sites
- Dictyaraea anomala3 sites
- Porites3 sites
- Porites amplectans3 sites
- Stylophora cyclopleura3 sites
- Trochoseris florescens3 sites
- Acropora2 sites
- Acropsammia2 sites
- Alveopora2 sites
- Astreopora rutteni2 sites
- Caryophyllia2 sites
- Cyphastrea2 sites
- Cyphastrea microphthalma2 sites
- Cyphastrea tubifera2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Seriatopora ornata, 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
7 references- Fossil corals from Eniwetok Atoll12
- Die Anthozoenfauna des Jungtertiärs von Borneo [Anthozoa from the Upper Tertiary of Borneo]3
- Research on fossil corals from Java2
- Pliocene mollusca from a coral limestone of a hill near Sekoerau, E. Borneo1
- Neue Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Korallenfauna des Tertiärs von Java. I: Die Korallen des Eocen und des älteren Neogen [The Tertiary coral fauna of Java. I: Eocene and Lower Neogene corals]1
- Anthozoa Van N. O. Borneo1
- Fossile Anthozoen von Borneo [Fossil Anthozoa from Borneo]1
Each of the 21 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. 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 Seriatopora ornata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Seriatopora ornata was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 itSeriatopora through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Felix 1921