Calamophyllia

Calamophyllia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CalamophylliidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
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 213 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 12.8 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 72 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 72 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 72 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 72 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 34 of 72 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 72 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 72 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 72 occurrencesEocene — about 23 of 72 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 72 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 72 occurrences241–234 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences203–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences195–187 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences187–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–164 Mya — about 6 occurrences164–156 Mya — about 5 occurrences156–148 Mya — about 22 occurrences148–140 Mya — about 7 occurrences133–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–109 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences109–102 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences102–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–63 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences55–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–32 Mya — about 20 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–8.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence227.3 Mya13.82 Mya241 Mya8 Mya

72 occurrences of Calamophyllia on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

72 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

13 formations

Tanga Limestone — 5.08°S, 38.94°ETanga Limestone — 5.06°S, 39.05°EPteroceriano — 38.93°N, 9.13°WAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EStramberk — 49.58°N, 18.12°EJipi — 11.83°N, 71.63°WStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EKosode — 35.82°N, 138.93°EUrtabulak — 38.92°N, 64.85°EGuinea Corn — 18.16°N, 77.38°WCassian — 46.51°N, 11.76°EEguino — 42.88°N, 2.18°WCaleta Lígate — 20.13°S, 70.02°W

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The named rock units Calamophyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 54 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Calamophyllia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Calamophyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

697 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Calamophyllia, 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

31 references

Each of the 72 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. 19 further references are not listed. 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 Calamophyllia

Source
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Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Calamophyllia 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 itCalamophylliidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blainville 1830