Axophyllum

Axophyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AxophyllidaePBDB
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 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 276.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 264.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 52 of 57 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 5 of 57 occurrencesPermian348–346 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences346–343 Mya — about 1 occurrence343–340 Mya — about 1 occurrence340–337 Mya — about 10 occurrences337–334 Mya — about 11 occurrences334–331 Mya — about 12 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 7 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 4 occurrences326–323 Mya — about 3 occurrences323–320 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences317–314 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences314–311 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences309–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences275–272 Mya — about 1 occurrence272–269 Mya — about 1 occurrence269–266 Mya — about 1 occurrence266–263 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences339.9 Mya276.8 Mya348 Mya263 Mya

57 occurrences of Axophyllum 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

57 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

29 formations

Clogrenan — 52.83°N, 6.92°WClogrenan — 52.68°N, 7.02°WRoque Redonde — 43.53°N, 3.20°EIdmarrach — 33.53°N, 5.39°WIdmarrach — 33.43°N, 5.22°WZindancik — 36.93°N, 32.43°EHeshilafu — 37.37°N, 75.98°EArdengost — 42.93°N, 0.40°EMarbella — 36.52°N, 4.88°WLlanarmon Limestone — 53.13°N, 3.22°WZeandale Limestone — 39.13°N, 96.44°WStotler Limestone — 39.07°N, 95.98°WRoot Shale — 37.97°N, 96.25°WJanesville Shale — 37.09°N, 96.57°WForaker Limestone — 37.25°N, 96.54°WHunts Bay Oolite — 51.55°N, 4.20°WFoel — 53.63°N, 2.70°WRoc de Murviel — 43.55°N, 3.33°EPotts Beck Limestone — 54.47°N, 2.35°WBricklieve Limestone — 54.05°N, 8.37°WBallyadams — 52.83°N, 6.92°WTizra — 33.53°N, 5.39°WAkerchi — 33.53°N, 5.39°WTashly — 53.92°N, 56.58°ETabainout — 32.97°N, 5.82°WKoudiat Es-Senn — 34.30°N, 2.06°W

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The named rock units Axophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Axophyllum and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Axophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

273 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Axophyllum, 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

26 references

Each of the 57 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. 14 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 content2

Picture of Axophyllum

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itAxophyllidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850