Turbinaria mesenterina

Ahmed Abdul Rahman for MDC Seamarc Maldives · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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.

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TurbinariaPBDB

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

• Miocene14%
• Pliocene43%
• Pleistocene29%
• Holocene14%

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.

Where Turbinaria mesenterina and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene. Draw the map

• Cyphastrea serailia3 sites
• Goniastrea retiformis3 sites
• Plesiastrea versipora3 sites
• Acanthastrea echinata2 sites
• Brissus2 sites
• Cycloseris cyclolites2 sites
• Cycloseris patelliformis2 sites
• Cynarina lacrymalis2 sites
• Cyphastrea chalcidicum2 sites
• Dipsastraea favus2 sites
• Duncanopsammia peltata2 sites
• Echinophyllia aspera2 sites
• Favites abdita2 sites
• Favites flexuosa2 sites
• Goniopora lobata2 sites
• Hydnophora exesa2 sites
• Hyotissa virleti2 sites
• Leptoria phrygia2 sites
• Lobophyllia hemprichii2 sites
• Oxypora lacera2 sites
• Pavona varians2 sites
• Platygyra pini2 sites
• Pocillopora damicornis2 sites
• Psammocora columna2 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Turbinaria mesenterina, 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.

• Pliocene and Plio-Pleistocene macrofauna from the Red Sea coastal plain (Egypt): biostratigraphy and biogeographyKora and Abdel-Fattah, 2000 · Geologica et Palaeontologica · journal article2
• Biofacies and diagenetic alterations of the Pleistocene coral reefs, northwest Red Sea coast, Saudi ArabiaKahal et al., 2019 · Geological Journal · journal article1
• High coral reef connectivity across the Indian Ocean is revealed 6–7 Ma ago by a turbid-water scleractinian assemblage from Tanzania (Eastern Africa)Reuter et al., 2019 · Coral Reefs · journal article1
• Environmental control of Holocene changes to the world's most northern hermatypic coral outcropVeron, 1992 · Pacific Science · journal article1
• Facies, Fossil Record, and Age of Pleistocene Reefs from the Red Sea (Saudi Arabia)Dullo, 1990 · Facies · journal article1
• Coral species stability in reef corals of Papua New Guinea and the Indo-PacificVeron and Kelly, 1988 · Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists · serial monograph1

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.

What may have been alongside itTurbinaria through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1816)