Balanophyllia variabilis

Balanophyllia variabilis

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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 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 10 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 10 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–5.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.2–3.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.4–1.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48.07 Mya5.333 Mya57 Mya2 Mya

10 occurrences of Balanophyllia variabilis 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

10 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

4 formations

Capay — 38.77°N, 122.20°WCapay — 39.20°N, 121.82°WCapay — 38.54°N, 122.05°WCrescent — 47.31°N, 123.53°WBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°WLincoln Creek — 47.66°N, 122.96°W

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The named rock units Balanophyllia variabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Balanophyllia variabilis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Balanophyllia variabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

203 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Balanophyllia variabilis, 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

8 references

Each of the 10 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 variabilis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Balanophyllia variabilis 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 EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nomland 1916