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Oculinidae

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Astrhelia sp.

Lake Nacogdoches spillway, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA

Astrhelia sp.

Lake Nacogdoches spillway, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA

Astrhelia sp.

Lake Nacogdoches spillway, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA

Description

Oculinidae is a family of colonial corals.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculinidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	9255	https://www.gbif.org/species/9255
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	81747	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=81747

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Oculinidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
phylum	Cnidaria	Hatschek 1888
class	Anthozoa	Ehrenberg 1834
subclass	Zoantharia	de Blainville 1830
order	Scleractinia	Bourne 1900
suborder	Faviina	Vaughan and Wells 1943
family	Oculinidae	Gray 1847

Scientific Name

Oculinidae

Name Published In

Gray JE (1847) An outline of an arrangement of stony corals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1st Series 19: 120-128.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Oculinidae	family	belongs to Faviicae	stated with evidence	Wells, 1956
Oculinidae	family	belongs to Faviina	stated with evidence	Baron-Szabo, 2006

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

26 (29%)

First Recorded Appearance

125 - 113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

marine (based on Scleractinia)

Motility

stationary, attached

Vision

blind (based on Anthozoa)

Diet

suspension feeder

Reproduction

alternating, asexual, dispersal=water,planktonic (based on Scleractinia)

Ecospace Comments

Some species with photosymbionts (WK)

Taphonomy

aragonite

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. Baron-Szabo. 2006. Corals of the K/T-boundary: scleractinian corals of the suborders Astrocoeniina, Faviina, Rhipidogyrina and Amphiastraeina. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 4(1):1-108

Common Name(s)

ビワガライシ

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculinidae

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Galaxeinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		207	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Oculininae subfamily	listed (PBDB)		50	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Amphihelia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Archohelia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Astrhelia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		16	38.0 Ma Eocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Bantamia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	23.0 Ma Miocene
Bathelia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Coelohelia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cyathelia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Diblasus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Diplhelia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		11	28.1 Ma Oligocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Ennallohelia genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Haplohelia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Lophohelia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Madrepora genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		67	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Oculina genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		82	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Palaeohelia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	112 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Petrophyllia genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Schizoculina genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.78 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Sclerhelia genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	28.1 Ma Oligocene	0 Ma Extant
Simplastrea genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Madreporidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Madreporidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1847	Oculinidae Gray
1956	Oculinidae Wells
1999	Oculinidae Squires p. 13
2006	Oculinidae Baron-Szabo p. 65

References

Baron-Szabo R. (2006) Corals of the K/T-boundary: scleractinian corals of the suborders Astrocoeniina, Faviina, Rhipidogyrina and Amphiastraeina, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 4 1, 1-108

Wells J. W. (1956) Scleractinia, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology F, 328-444

Cairns, S.D., and Kitahara, M. (2012). An illustrated key to the genera and subgenera of the Recent azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa), with an attached glossary. ZooKeys 227: 1-47. - via World Register of Marine Species

Gray JE (1847) An outline of an arrangement of stony corals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1st Series 19: 120-128. - via World Register of Marine Species

Veron, J.E.N.; Pichon, M. (1980). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part III. Family Agariciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectinidae, Caryophyllidae, Dendrophylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series. 4: 1-459. - via World Register of Marine Species

Cairns, S.D., Hoeksema, B.W., and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 109-110 - via World Register of Marine Species

Cairns, Stephen D., 1999: Species richness of recent Scleractinia. Atoll Research Bulletin, no. 59. 1-46. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Kuhlmann, Dietrich H. H., 1984: null. Living coral reefs of the world.. 185. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Gray JE (1847) An outline of an arrangement of stony corals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1st Series 19: 120-128. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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