Alpinophyllia
No picture of Alpinophyllia 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 Alpinophyllia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AlpinophylliidaePBDB
- 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 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
12 occurrences of Alpinophyllia on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
12 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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 Alpinophyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Alpinophyllia and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Alpinophyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
210 taxa- Retiophyllia5 sites
- Distichomeandra austriaca4 sites
- Retiophyllia norica4 sites
- Volzeia subdichotoma4 sites
- Cassianastraea reussi3 sites
- Distichophyllia norica3 sites
- Guembelastraea guembeli3 sites
- Heterastridium conglobatum3 sites
- Margarophyllia capitata3 sites
- Margarosmilia confluens3 sites
- Margarosmilia richthofeni3 sites
- Margarosmilia zieteni3 sites
- Omphalophyllia3 sites
- Omphalophyllia boletiformis3 sites
- Pamiropora sonorensis3 sites
- Pinacophyllum3 sites
- Protoheterastrea leonhardi3 sites
- Remismilia sublaevis3 sites
- Astraeomorpha crassisepta2 sites
- Bivalvia2 sites
- Chondrocoenia waltheri2 sites
- Cinnabaria expansa2 sites
- Craspedophyllia alpina2 sites
- Craspedophyllia cristata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Alpinophyllia, 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
7 references- Taxonomic revisions of scleractinian corals3
- Upper Triassic invertebrates from the Antimonio Formation, Sonora, Mexico3
- Die Korallen der Schichten von St Cassian in Süd-Tirol2
- New paleontological investigations of Triassic carbonate rocks in the Upper Chulitna District (Chulitna Terrane), southcentral Alaska1
- Upper Triassic reef fauna from the Quesnel terrane, central British Columbia, Canada1
- Triassic Corals of the Zlambach Beds, Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria1
- Biostratinomy and palaeoecology of the Cassian Formation (Triassic) of the Southern Alps1
Each of the 12 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 Alpinophyllia 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 Alpinophyllia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Alpinophyllia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAlpinophylliidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roniewicz 1989