Stephanocoenia duncani

Stephanocoenia duncani

via iDigBio · CC BY · via iDigBio. 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
StephanocoeniaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Astrocoeniidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Astrocoeniidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Astrocoeniidae

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 774 ka.

Oligocene — about 3 of 80 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 14 of 80 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 80 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 51 of 80 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.4–8.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.6–6.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.7–5.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.8–4.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.8–3.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.9–3.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.0–2.1 Mya — about 16 occurrences2.1–1.2 Mya — about 26 occurrences1.2–243 ka Mya — about 11 occurrences23.04 Mya2.58 Mya27.8 Mya243 ka

80 occurrences of Stephanocoenia duncani on record. 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

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

16 formations

Moin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.30°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.17°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 71.07°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WUrraca — 9.38°N, 82.24°WUrraca — 9.43°N, 82.32°WOld Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°WAnguilla — 18.23°N, 63.07°WIsla Colon — 9.37°N, 82.23°WIsla Colon — 9.30°N, 82.10°WRio Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.17°WAntigua — 17.07°N, 61.73°WCercado — 19.67°N, 71.40°WOld Pera — 17.87°N, 76.28°WAgua Clara — 11.00°N, 70.33°WCastillo — 11.00°N, 70.50°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WMao — 19.55°N, 71.27°WValiente — 9.15°N, 81.94°W

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The named rock units Stephanocoenia duncani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

185 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Stephanocoenia duncani, 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

9 references

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. 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 Stephanocoenia duncani

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Stephanocoenia duncani 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Foster 1987