Agathiphyllia

Agathiphyllia

Dr Kenneth G. Johnson · CC0 · via GBIF. 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AgathiphylliidaePBDB
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 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 117 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 117 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 17 of 117 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 84 of 117 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 117 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 117 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 8 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 8 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 7 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 7 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 8 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 31 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 31 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–8.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.3–6.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61.66 Mya13.82 Mya67 Mya4 Mya

117 occurrences of Agathiphyllia on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

117 occurrences

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

27 formations

Antigua — 17.12°N, 61.85°WAntigua — 17.03°N, 61.73°WAntigua — 17.10°N, 61.70°WSiamaná — 12.07°N, 71.44°WSiamaná — 12.03°N, 71.42°WCastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.55°N, 11.38°EGatuncillo — 9.25°N, 79.63°WMoneague — 18.40°N, 77.37°WMoneague — 17.95°N, 77.38°WLa Quinta — 17.12°N, 92.88°WSalcedo — 45.77°N, 11.60°ECalvene — 45.77°N, 11.60°ESan Luis — 11.07°N, 69.88°WSan Luis — 11.17°N, 69.68°WQom — 31.50°N, 52.73°EQom — 29.31°N, 56.18°ETorre Specchialaguardia Limestone — 40.05°N, 18.48°EAnguilla — 18.23°N, 63.07°WEptachorion — 40.13°N, 21.14°ERancho Berlin Sandstone — 16.85°N, 92.92°WCastillo — 11.00°N, 70.50°WValiente — 9.15°N, 81.94°WValiente — 9.15°N, 81.94°WPepino — 18.30°N, 66.92°WTabera — 19.60°N, 70.82°WTabera — 19.28°N, 70.70°WUm ad Dahiy — 29.75°N, 18.13°ENago Limestone — 45.89°N, 10.88°ESanto Spirito — 42.17°N, 14.17°EGreir Bu Hascisc — 29.67°N, 17.33°ELares — 18.28°N, 66.87°WSagdere — 37.90°N, 29.30°E

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The named rock units Agathiphyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Agathiphyllia and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Agathiphyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

312 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Agathiphyllia, 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

37 references

Each of the 117 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. 24 further references are not listed. 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 Agathiphyllia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Dr Kenneth G. Johnson
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Agathiphyllia was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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 itAgathiphylliidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reuss 1864