Breviphyllum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BreviphyllinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At least 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 358.86 Mya.
9 occurrences of Breviphyllum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
9 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
3 formations
- Dawson Bay Formation3
- Tabberabbera Formation · Wentworth Group2
- Candas Formation1
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The named rock units Breviphyllum 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.
Breviphyllum and its relatives
DevonianWhere Breviphyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
108 taxa- Thamnopora4 sites
- Atrypa3 sites
- Aulopora3 sites
- Favosites3 sites
- Allonema nodosum2 sites
- Alveolites2 sites
- Bensbergia altivolvis2 sites
- Bethanyphyllum2 sites
- Buechelia tyrrelli2 sites
- Clionolithes2 sites
- Coenites2 sites
- Cornuproetus2 sites
- Cymostrophia2 sites
- Cyrtina hamiltonensis2 sites
- Disphyllum2 sites
- Disphyllum caespitosum2 sites
- Emanuella2 sites
- Fenestella2 sites
- Fenestella dargoensis2 sites
- Hipparionyx major2 sites
- Isorthis alpha2 sites
- Kunthia2 sites
- Otarion2 sites
- Proetus manitobensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Breviphyllum, 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
4 references- Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian corals of Alaska3
- Fauna of the Manitoba Group, from Manitoba, Canada3
- The Devonian of the Mitchell and Wentworth Rivers2
- Rugose corals of the Lower-Middle and Middle-Upper Devonian boundary beds of the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain)1
Each of the 9 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 content0
No picture of Breviphyllum 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 Breviphyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Breviphyllum 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 itBreviphyllinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stumm 1949