Stylophora sokkohensis
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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 least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
7 occurrences of Stylophora sokkohensis 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
7 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 Stylophora sokkohensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Stylophora sokkohensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Stylophora sokkohensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
72 taxa- Porites4 sites
- Seriatopora ornata4 sites
- Stylophora pistillata4 sites
- Acropora3 sites
- Alveopora3 sites
- Hydnophyllia3 sites
- Trochoseris florescens3 sites
- Acropsammia2 sites
- Actinastrea minutissima2 sites
- Caryophyllia2 sites
- Confusastraraea2 sites
- Cyphastrea2 sites
- Cyphastrea gemmulifera2 sites
- Diplhelia2 sites
- Flabellum irregulare2 sites
- Goniopora2 sites
- Lithophyllia2 sites
- Lophelia2 sites
- Petrophylliella2 sites
- Stylophora cyclopleura2 sites
- Acanthastrea1 site
- Acropora duncani1 site
- Actinacis rollei1 site
- Agathiphyllia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Stylophora sokkohensis, 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
6 references- Research on fossil corals from Java2
- Scleractinian corals from the Oligocene of the Qom Formation (Esfahan-Sirjan fore-arc basin, Iran)1
- Fossil corals from Eniwetok Atoll1
- Jungtertiäre Korallen von Java1
- 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
- Die Anthozoenfauna des Jungtertiärs von Borneo [Anthozoa from the Upper Tertiary of Borneo]1
Each of the 7 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 Stylophora sokkohensis
- 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 was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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. Gerth 1921