Baryphyllia gregaria

Baryphyllia gregaria

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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 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 3 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165.3 Mya121.4 Mya170 Mya99 Mya

3 occurrences of Baryphyllia gregaria 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 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

2 formations

Langshan — 32.23°N, 81.23°EMytilus Beds — 46.63°N, 7.38°E

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The named rock units Baryphyllia gregaria 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.

Baryphyllia gregaria and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Baryphyllia gregaria and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

37 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Baryphyllia gregaria, 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

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

Media content1

Picture of Baryphyllia gregaria

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Baryphyllia gregaria 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)