Amygdalophyllum

Amygdalophyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmygdalophyllinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 266.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 16 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 15 of 16 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 16 occurrencesPermian361–358 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences358–354 Mya — about 1 occurrence354–351 Mya — about 1 occurrence351–348 Mya — about 1 occurrence348–345 Mya — about 1 occurrence345–342 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences342–338 Mya — about 2 occurrences338–335 Mya — about 2 occurrences335–332 Mya — about 2 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 1 occurrence329–326 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences326–322 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences310–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–303 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences300–297 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences275–271 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences271–268 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346.7 Mya274.4 Mya361 Mya265 Mya

16 occurrences of Amygdalophyllum on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

16 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

9 formations

Gudman — 23.00°S, 150.00°ELuton — 29.53°S, 150.22°ERat Buri — 13.46°N, 99.74°ETabainout — 32.97°N, 5.82°WZindancik — 36.93°N, 32.43°EDjebel Berga — 27.42°N, 0.25°WXuchika — 29.55°N, 99.42°EYamansu — 41.90°N, 93.77°EWordiekammen limestones — 78.49°N, 16.79°E

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The named rock units Amygdalophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amygdalophyllum and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Amygdalophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

81 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Amygdalophyllum, 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

10 references

Each of the 16 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 content1

Picture of Amygdalophyllum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Amygdalophyllum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itAmygdalophyllinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dun and Benson 1920