Calamophylliopsis

Calamophylliopsis is a genus of extinct stony corals. They lived from the Early Jurassic to Late Oligocene.

Calamophylliopsis

Faugères, L. · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DermosmiliidaePBDB
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 150 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 256 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 10 of 256 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 188 of 256 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 49 of 256 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 256 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 256 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 256 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 256 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 256 occurrences196–190 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences190–185 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences185–179 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences179–173 Mya — about 3 occurrences173–167 Mya — about 6 occurrences167–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–155 Mya — about 72 occurrences155–149 Mya — about 86 occurrences149–143 Mya — about 28 occurrences143–137 Mya — about 2 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 7 occurrences132–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–120 Mya — about 10 occurrences120–114 Mya — about 16 occurrences114–108 Mya — about 8 occurrences108–102 Mya — about 4 occurrences102–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–90 Mya — about 1 occurrence90–84 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–26 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences26–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences184.2 Mya33.9 Mya196 Mya20 Mya

256 occurrences of Calamophylliopsis 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

256 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

50 formations

Cabeca — 37.15°N, 7.75°WCabeca — 37.08°N, 8.25°WCabeca — 37.15°N, 7.88°WCabeca — 37.13°N, 7.85°WCabeca — 37.12°N, 7.65°WKorallenoolith — 52.15°N, 9.98°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.57°EKorallenoolith — 52.23°N, 9.53°EAmaral — 39.02°N, 9.02°WAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.18°WAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.13°WLangshan — 33.23°N, 79.80°ELangshan — 32.23°N, 81.23°ELangshan — 32.05°N, 81.98°ESlivnitsa — 42.77°N, 22.75°EAbadia — 38.93°N, 9.00°WAbadia — 38.98°N, 9.07°WOolithe corallienne de Pagnoz — 47.13°N, 6.15°EPu Khloe Phi — 16.28°N, 98.72°EPu Khloe Phi — 16.03°N, 98.67°EBenassal — 40.05°N, 0.15°EUrtabulak — 38.92°N, 64.85°EUrtabulak — 39.08°N, 64.25°ELalla Oujja — 30.57°N, 9.60°WChay — 46.10°N, 1.13°WMural Limestone — 31.38°N, 109.75°WStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°ESepingtiang — 3.83°S, 103.25°EPteroceriano — 38.93°N, 9.13°WSao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°WSao Romao — 37.15°N, 7.93°WSmochan — 43.12°N, 24.67°ESmochan — 43.15°N, 24.68°EValfin — 46.43°N, 5.85°ESwarzow Limestone — 50.18°N, 20.95°EGarschella — 47.23°N, 9.33°EAlikper — 39.60°N, 54.50°ESt. Ursanne — 47.41°N, 7.42°EMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°E

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The named rock units Calamophylliopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 151 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Calamophylliopsis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

1,418 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 146 sites for Calamophylliopsis, 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

87 references

Each of the 256 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. 75 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 Calamophylliopsis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Faugères, L.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Calamophylliopsis 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDermosmiliidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alloiteau 1952