Calophyllum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolycoeliidaePBDB
- 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 326 million years on record.
The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 774 ka.
93 occurrences of Calophyllum on record, most of them in the Permian. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
93 occurrences- Carboniferous5%
- Permian77%
- Paleoceneunder 1%
- Eocene3%
- Oligocene1%
- Miocene10%
- Pliocene1%
- Pleistocene1%
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
34 formations
- Zechstein Formation15
- Wegener Halvo Formation11
- Bagh-e Vang Formation5
- Ford Formation4
- Zhesi Formation3
- Langcuo Formation3
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The named rock units Calophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Calophyllum and its relatives
PermianWhere Calophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
1,029 taxa- Amplexocarinia6 sites
- Verbeekiella australis6 sites
- Cassia5 sites
- Lophophyllidium5 sites
- Pterospirifer alatus5 sites
- Actinodaphne palaeoangustifolia4 sites
- Dipterocarpus siwalicus4 sites
- Fenestella4 sites
- Pithecolobium4 sites
- Spiriferella keilhavii4 sites
- Tachylasma4 sites
- Amplexus coralloides3 sites
- Bambusa siwalika3 sites
- Chonetella nasuta3 sites
- Cyathocarinia tuberculata3 sites
- Cyathocrinites ramosus3 sites
- Dysoxylum raptiensis3 sites
- Eotiaris keyserlingi3 sites
- Eugenia3 sites
- Horridonia horrida3 sites
- Inga3 sites
- Mesua tertiara3 sites
- Mimusops3 sites
- Orthoceras3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Calophyllum, 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
52 references- Rugose Korallen aus dem oberen Perm Ost-Gronlands10
- Korallen im Paläozoikum von Thüringen6
- Die paläozoischen Korallenfaunen Ost-Irans 2. Rugosa und Tabulata der Jamal-Formation (Darwasian ?, Perm)5
- Guadalupian (Middle Permian) solitary rugose corals from the Degerböls and Trold Fiord formations, Ellesmere and Melville islands, Canadian Arctic Archipelago4
- Korallenstöcke aus palaeolithischen Formationen4
- Les strates du Permian inférieur et la faune corallienne de part et d'autre du Yarlung Zangbo dans la région centre-sud de Tibet3
- Zur Stratigraphie von Portugiesisch Timor3
- The Permian of Mongolia3
- Fossil Leaf Impressions from Siwalik Bed of Bhutan2
- Angiospermous fossil leaves from the Siwalik foreland basins and their palaeoclimatic implications2
- Permian strata and brachiopods from Xiujimqinqi region of Neimongol (Inner Mongolia) autonomous region, China2
- Middle and Upper Carboniferous rugose corals from southern Dahinganling (Great Khingan Mts.)2
Each of the 93 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. 40 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 Calophyllum
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Calophyllum 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPolycoeliidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dana 1846