Balanophyllia clarendonensis
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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 most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Balanophyllia clarendonensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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
- Swanswick Formation · White Limestone Group1
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The named rock units Balanophyllia clarendonensis 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 clarendonensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Balanophyllia clarendonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Actinacis alabamensis1 site
- Aguayoaster schickleri1 site
- Alveopora1 site
- Astropectinidae1 site
- Callianassa1 site
- Caribbaster loveni1 site
- Caulastrea1 site
- Colpophyllia duncani1 site
- Diploastrea1 site
- Hydnophora variabilis1 site
- Millepora1 site
- Montastrea nodosa1 site
- Pocillopora1 site
- Stylocoenia1 site
- Stylocoeniella1 site
- Stylophora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Balanophyllia clarendonensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 referencesEach 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 clarendonensis 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 clarendonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Balanophyllia clarendonensis 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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wells 1934)