Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) bossolensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BalanophylliaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Balanophyllia
- 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 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
2 occurrences of Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) bossolensis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) bossolensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) bossolensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) bossolensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
230 taxa- Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) sismondiana2 sites
- Balanophyllia italica2 sites
- Balanophyllia varians2 sites
- Ceratotrochus (Edwardsotrochus) bellingherianus2 sites
- Culicia parasita2 sites
- Dendrophyllia amica2 sites
- Flabellum2 sites
- Acanthastrea crenulata1 site
- Acanthastrea termofurae1 site
- Acropora bonellii1 site
- Acropora exarata1 site
- Acropora lavandulina1 site
- Aequipecten macrotis1 site
- Amalda glandiformis1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Anomocora rarogemmans1 site
- Aquitanastraea1 site
- Aquitanastraea incrustans1 site
- Aquitanastraea piveteaui1 site
- Aquitanastraea pruvosti1 site
- Aquitanastraea tenuitabulata1 site
- Aquitanophyllia grandistellae1 site
- Arbacina1 site
- Astarte fusca sallomacensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) bossolensis, 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
2 references- Les Scléractiniaires du Serravallien de Pessac (Nord-Aquitaine, France) : approche paléoécologique1
- Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) bossolensis 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 Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) bossolensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) bossolensis 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 itBalanophyllia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chevalier 1961