Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) zuffardii
No picture of Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) zuffardii 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) zuffardii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 4.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 15.98 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) zuffardii 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
1 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) zuffardii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) zuffardii and its relatives
MioceneWhere Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) zuffardii and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
196 taxa- Acanthastrea crenulata1 site
- Acanthastrea termofurae1 site
- Acropora bonellii1 site
- Acropora exarata1 site
- Acropora lavandulina1 site
- Anomocora rarogemmans1 site
- Aquitanastraea1 site
- Aquitanastraea incrustans1 site
- Aquitanastraea piveteaui1 site
- Aquitanastraea pruvosti1 site
- Aquitanastraea tenuitabulata1 site
- Aquitanophyllia grandistellae1 site
- Astrhelia1 site
- Astrhelia neglecta1 site
- Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) bossolensis1 site
- Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) cornurupicaprae1 site
- Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) cylindrica1 site
- Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) meneghinii1 site
- Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) pachysepta1 site
- Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) sismondiana1 site
- Balanophyllia compressa1 site
- Balanophyllia concinna1 site
- Balanophyllia conica1 site
- Balanophyllia italica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) zuffardii, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) zuffardii 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) zuffardii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) zuffardii 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.
Keep going
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