Stylophora digitata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StylophoraPBDB
- 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 most 4.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 11.63 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Stylophora digitata 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Stylophora digitata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Stylophora digitata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Stylophora digitata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Acropora duncani1 site
- Anisocoenia crassisepta1 site
- Astreopora hochstetteri1 site
- Balanophyllia complanata1 site
- Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) laterocristatus1 site
- Deltocyathus australis1 site
- Diploastrea heliopora borneensis1 site
- Echinopora crassatina1 site
- Flabellum1 site
- Flabellum irregulare1 site
- Fungia fungites1 site
- Heterocyathus1 site
- Heteropsammia cochlea1 site
- Notocyathus viola1 site
- Pachyseris1 site
- Paracyathus procumbens1 site
- Pavona javana1 site
- Porites1 site
- Solenastrea semarangensis1 site
- Trachyphyllia geoffroyi1 site
- Tropidocyathus nudus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Stylophora digitata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Stylophora digitata
- 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 Stylophora digitata 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 itStylophora through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pallas 1878