Anthemiphyllia

Anthemiphyllia is a genus of corals within the family Anthemiphylliidae. There are currently 8 extant and 2 extinct species assigned to the genus.

Anthemiphyllia

Noémy Mollaret · CC BY 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnthemiphylliidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, solitary, clonalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 1 of 6 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 6 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 6 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 6 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 6 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences33.9 Mya129 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

6 occurrences of Anthemiphyllia on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

6 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

3 formations

Brèches rouges de Carboneras — 37.60°N, 1.32°WSumagui — 12.78°N, 121.47°EArcadia — 27.95°N, 82.37°W

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The named rock units Anthemiphyllia 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.

Anthemiphyllia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Anthemiphyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

130 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Anthemiphyllia, 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

6 references

Each of the 6 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 Anthemiphyllia

Credit
Noémy Mollaret
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAnthemiphylliidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pourtales 1878