Circophyllum
No picture of Circophyllum 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 Circophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KodonophyllidaePBDB
- 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 most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 426.7 Mya and 413.02 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Circophyllum on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
5 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Circophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Circophyllum and its relatives
SilurianWhere Circophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Plexodictyon2 sites
- Actinodictyon1 site
- Alaskospira1 site
- Algae1 site
- Aphyllum1 site
- Atrypoidea1 site
- Conchidium1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cystiphyllum1 site
- Cystiphyllum (Hedstroemophyllum)1 site
- Ecclimadictyon1 site
- Favosites1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Gerronostroma1 site
- Osterina delicata1 site
- Pseudamplexus1 site
- Quadricarina senilis1 site
- Riphaeolites1 site
- Semistracirsa altera1 site
- Septatrypa1 site
- Stellopora1 site
- Strombodes1 site
- Syndetocrinus1 site
- Syringopora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Circophyllum, 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- Stromatoporaty i biostratigrafiya nizhnego paleozoya Mongolii [Stromatoporata and biostratigraphy of the Lower Paleozoic of Mongolia]2
- Silurian and Early Devonian benthic communities of the Ural-Tien Shan region1
- Northern Urals1
- Cheshuychatyye rugozy tsentralnogo Tadzhikistana [Fasciculate rugose corals from central Tadzhikistan]1
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Circophyllum 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 Circophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Circophyllum 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.
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What may have been alongside itKodonophyllidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lang and Smith 1939