Campophyllum

Campophyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CampophyllidaePBDB
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 168 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 440.5 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 22 occurrencesSilurian — about 1 of 22 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 10 of 22 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 8 of 22 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 22 occurrencesPermian444–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–432 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences413–407 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences407–400 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences400–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–388 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences375–369 Mya — about 1 occurrence369–363 Mya — about 4 occurrences363–356 Mya — about 4 occurrences356–350 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences350–344 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences338–331 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences331–325 Mya — about 2 occurrences325–319 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences306–300 Mya — about 3 occurrences300–294 Mya — about 2 occurrences294–288 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences269–263 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences263–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence432.9 Mya264.28 Mya444 Mya256 Mya

22 occurrences of Campophyllum 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

22 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

9 formations

Graham — 33.18°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.13°N, 98.22°WPercha Shale — 32.84°N, 108.36°WPercha Shale — 32.86°N, 108.03°WPercha Shale — 32.79°N, 107.93°WCapitan — 31.90°N, 104.86°WCapitan — 31.90°N, 104.83°WHalleck — 56.92°N, 134.22°WManticoceras Limestone — 50.78°N, 20.55°EDubie — 50.17°N, 19.67°ERed Mountain — 34.88°N, 85.37°WWee Jasper — 35.06°S, 148.64°EMonte Cristo — 35.88°N, 115.71°W

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The named rock units Campophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Campophyllum and its relatives

Devonian

Where Campophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

243 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Campophyllum, 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

11 references

Each of the 22 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 content2

Picture of Campophyllum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
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CC0
Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCampophyllidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850