Balanophyllia

Searched as Balanophyllia cf. ponderosa texana. The Paleobiology Database treats Balanophyllia as the accepted name.

Balanophyllia

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
DendrophylliidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
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 4.4 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 61.66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 1 occurrencePaleocene — about 1 of 1 occurrencePaleocene66–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66.5 Mya61.2 Mya

1 occurrence of Balanophyllia on record, most of them in the Paleocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

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.

Balanophyllia and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Balanophyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

3,060 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 155 sites for Balanophyllia, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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 reference

Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Balanophyllia

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Balanophyllia 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 itDendrophylliidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wood 1844