Trachyphyllia sawkinsi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrachyphylliaPBDB
- 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 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 774 ka.
13 occurrences of Trachyphyllia sawkinsi 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
13 occurrences- Miocene77%
- Pleistocene23%
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
7 formations
- Tamana Formation3
- La Quinta Formation · Simojovel Group3
- Anguilla Formation2
- Moin Formation · Limon Group2
- Urraca Formation1
- Old Bank Formation1
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The named rock units Trachyphyllia sawkinsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Trachyphyllia sawkinsi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Trachyphyllia sawkinsi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Stylophora imperatoris4 sites
- Montastraea endothecata3 sites
- Porites baracoaensis3 sites
- Acropora saludensis2 sites
- Agaricia agaricites2 sites
- Goniopora hilli2 sites
- Goniopora imperatoris2 sites
- Manicina areolata2 sites
- Montastrea endothecata2 sites
- Montastrea imperatoris2 sites
- Montastrea tampaensis2 sites
- Montastrea trinitatis2 sites
- Pavona trinitatis2 sites
- Porites macdonaldi2 sites
- Porites portoricensis2 sites
- Porites waylandi2 sites
- Siderastrea conferta2 sites
- Stephanocoenia duncani2 sites
- Agaricia grahamae1 site
- Agaricia lamarcki1 site
- Agaricia undata1 site
- Agathiphyllia hilli1 site
- Antillocyathus trinitatis1 site
- Dichocoenia stokesi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Trachyphyllia sawkinsi, 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
5 references- Neogene reef coral assemblages of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama: the rise of Acropora palmata3
- Middle Miocene recovery of Caribbean reef corals: new data from the Tamana Formation, Trinidad3
- Cenozoic Reef Biofacies3
- Pliocene to Pleistocene reef coral assemblages in the Limon Group of Costa Rica2
- Caribbean reef coral diversity during the Early to Middle Miocene: an Example from the Anguilla Formation2
Each of the 13 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 content0
No picture of Trachyphyllia sawkinsi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Trachyphyllia sawkinsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Trachyphyllia sawkinsi was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itTrachyphyllia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Vaughan 1926)