Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) cylindrica

Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) cylindrica

Marçais · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Oligocene — about 4 of 9 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 5 of 9 occurrencesMiocene28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.6–8.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.9–8.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.2–7.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.4–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23.04 Mya11.63 Mya27.8 Mya6.7 Mya

9 occurrences of Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) cylindrica 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

9 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

2 formations

Termofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°EAsmari — 31.72°N, 49.58°E

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The named rock units Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) cylindrica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) cylindrica and its relatives

Miocene

Where Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) cylindrica and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

213 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) cylindrica, 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 9 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 Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) cylindrica

Source
GBIF
Credit
Marçais
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) cylindrica 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 itBalanophyllia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Michelotti 1838)