Apocladophyllia birleyae
No picture of Apocladophyllia birleyae 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 Apocladophyllia birleyae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ApocladophylliaPBDB
- 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 40 million years on record.
The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 119.57 Mya.
4 occurrences of Apocladophyllia birleyae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Apocladophyllia birleyae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Apocladophyllia birleyae and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Apocladophyllia birleyae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
114 taxa- Acrosmilia1 site
- Actinastrea pseudominima1 site
- Aetostreon latissimum1 site
- Anomia laevigata1 site
- Aptolinter1 site
- Arrhoges1 site
- Brachidontes1 site
- Camptonectes (Camptonectes) cottaldinus1 site
- Cardita1 site
- Ceratostreon tuberculiferum1 site
- Cercomya1 site
- Chilodonta1 site
- Choristopetalum impar1 site
- Confusiscala1 site
- Crenella1 site
- Cymatoceras pseudoelegans1 site
- Cymatoceras radiatum1 site
- Cyphosolenus coronatus1 site
- Dermosmilia1 site
- Deshayesites1 site
- Diastopora1 site
- Discotectus1 site
- Donacosmilia silingensis1 site
- Eopecten favrinus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Apocladophyllia birleyae, 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
4 references- Taxonomic opinions on Cretaceous corals1
- Jurassic corals of east-central Iran1
- Cretaceous corals from Tibet (China) - stratigraphic and palaeobiogeographic aspects1
- The stratigraphy of the Atherfield Clay Formation (Lower Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) at the type and other localities in southern England1
Each of the 4 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 Apocladophyllia birleyae 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 Apocladophyllia birleyae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Apocladophyllia birleyae 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.
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What may have been alongside itApocladophyllia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gregory 1899)