Solenastrea bournoni

Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- SolenastreaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, microcarnivorePBDB, for Faviidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Faviidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Faviidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.
80 occurrences of Solenastrea bournoni on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
80 occurrences- Oligocene3%
- Miocene38%
- Pliocene39%
- Pleistocene20%
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
21 formations
- Seroe Domi Formation13
- Gurabo Formation12
- Cercado Formation9
- Mao Formation5
- Baitoa Formation5
- Isla Colon Formation5
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The named rock units Solenastrea bournoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Solenastrea bournoni and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Solenastrea bournoni and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
324 taxa- Orbicella limbata26 sites
- Porites baracoaensis23 sites
- Porites portoricensis19 sites
- Stylophora affinis19 sites
- Acropora cervicornis18 sites
- Agaricia agaricites16 sites
- Stylophora granulata16 sites
- Pseudodiploria strigosa14 sites
- Siderastrea siderea14 sites
- Porites waylandi12 sites
- Stylophora monticulosa12 sites
- Madracis decactis11 sites
- Placocyathus variabilis11 sites
- Porites astreoides11 sites
- Stylophora minor11 sites
- Pseudodiploria clivosa10 sites
- Goniopora imperatoris9 sites
- Isopora ginsburgi9 sites
- Montastraea endothecata9 sites
- Caulastrea portoricensis8 sites
- Montastrea cavernosa8 sites
- Montastraea7 sites
- Montastrea trinitatis7 sites
- Stephanocoenia spongiformis7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Solenastrea bournoni, 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
15 references- Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic, 11. The family Faviidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia), part 1. The genera Montastrea and Solenastrea25
- Origination preceding extinction during late Cenozoic turnover of Caribbean reefs18
- Neogene reef coral assemblages of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama: the rise of Acropora palmata6
- Pliocene to Pleistocene reef coral assemblages in the Limon Group of Costa Rica5
- Development of a Pliocene mixed-carbonate siliciclastic reef (Limon, Costa Rica)3
- Comparison of Caribbean coral reef communities before and after Plio-Pleistocene faunal turnover: Analyses of two Dominican Republic reef sequences3
- Reef corals of the White Limestone Group of Jamaica3
- Late Cenozoic corals of south Florida3
- Géologie générale et régionale de la République D'Haiti3
- A geological reconnaissance of the Dominican Republic3
- Middle Miocene recovery of Caribbean reef corals: new data from the Tamana Formation, Trinidad2
- Pleistocene marine terraces of la Blanquilla island, Venezuela, and their diagenesis2
Each of the 80 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. 3 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 Solenastrea bournoni
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Pauline Walsh Jacobson
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Solenastrea bournoni was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
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What may have been alongside itSolenastrea through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849