Baryphyllia confusa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BaryphylliaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, microcarnivorePBDB, for Baryphyllia
- 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 6.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 93.9 Mya.
3 occurrences of Baryphyllia confusa on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Baryphyllia confusa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Baryphyllia confusa and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Baryphyllia confusa and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Acteonina1 site
- Arctica1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Astraeofungia decipiens1 site
- Cassiope1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Chenopus1 site
- Cosmetodon1 site
- Craginia1 site
- Cryptocoenia aguilerai1 site
- Cryptocoenia biedai1 site
- Eunerinea1 site
- Exogyra1 site
- Fungiastraea crespoi1 site
- Haldonia cyclops1 site
- Harpagodes desori1 site
- Isognomon1 site
- Ksiazkiewiczia poblana1 site
- Loboseris mexicana1 site
- Lunatia1 site
- Natica1 site
- Nerinea1 site
- Nododelphinula1 site
- Ostrea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Baryphyllia confusa, 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
2 references- Cretaceous corals from the Huetamo region, Michoacan and Guerrero, southwestern Mexico2
- Corales del Cretacico inferior de San Juan Raya, Estado de Puebla [Lower Cretaceous corals from San Juan Raya, Puebla]1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Baryphyllia confusa 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 Baryphyllia confusa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Baryphyllia confusa 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.
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What may have been alongside itBaryphyllia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (D'Orbigny 1850)