Trochoseris florescens
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrochoserisPBDB
- 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 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
7 occurrences of Trochoseris florescens 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 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Trochoseris florescens 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.
Trochoseris florescens and its relatives
MioceneWhere Trochoseris florescens and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
121 taxa- Cyphastrea gemmulifera4 sites
- Actinastrea minutissima3 sites
- Alveopora polyacantha3 sites
- Goniopora planulata3 sites
- Seriatopora ornata3 sites
- Stylophora pistillata3 sites
- Stylophora sokkohensis3 sites
- Acropora2 sites
- Acropora fennemai2 sites
- Acropsammia2 sites
- Astreopora2 sites
- Astreopora rutteni2 sites
- Caryophyllia2 sites
- Ceratophyllia gigantea2 sites
- Cyphastrea2 sites
- Cyphastrea tubifera2 sites
- Diplhelia2 sites
- Flabellum irregulare2 sites
- Hydnophyllia2 sites
- Leptoseris floriformis2 sites
- Lithophyllia2 sites
- Lophelia2 sites
- Petrophylliella2 sites
- Platygyra2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Trochoseris florescens, 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
4 references- Die Anthozoenfauna des Jungtertiärs von Borneo [Anthozoa from the Upper Tertiary of Borneo]4
- Geology of Saipan, Mariana Islands: Part 1. General Geology1
- Research on fossil corals from 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
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Trochoseris florescens
- 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 itTrochoseris through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Felix 1921