Cladophyllia

Cladophyllia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CladophylliidaePBDB
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 171 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 61.66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 59.24 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 175 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 175 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 4 of 175 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 48 of 175 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 65 of 175 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 52 of 175 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 175 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 175 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 175 occurrences241–234 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences234–228 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences197–191 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences191–185 Mya — about 2 occurrences185–179 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences179–173 Mya — about 5 occurrences173–167 Mya — about 40 occurrences167–160 Mya — about 6 occurrences160–154 Mya — about 41 occurrences154–148 Mya — about 15 occurrences148–142 Mya — about 7 occurrences142–136 Mya — about 5 occurrences136–130 Mya — about 9 occurrences130–123 Mya — about 6 occurrences123–117 Mya — about 15 occurrences117–111 Mya — about 5 occurrences111–105 Mya — about 9 occurrences105–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–74 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences74–68 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence233.6 Mya61.66 Mya241 Mya56 Mya

175 occurrences of Cladophyllia 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

175 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

47 formations

Slivnitsa — 42.77°N, 22.75°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.70°EKorallenoolith — 52.37°N, 9.70°EKorallenoolith — 52.15°N, 9.98°EKorallenoolith — 52.18°N, 9.60°ESchrattenkalk — 47.42°N, 10.22°ESchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°EEdwards Limestone — 32.88°N, 101.15°WEdwards Limestone — 30.25°N, 97.77°WEdwards Limestone — 29.73°N, 100.38°WEdwards Limestone — 30.75°N, 98.22°WEspinazo del Diablo — 29.20°N, 109.50°WEspinazo del Diablo — 29.44°N, 109.46°WCalcaire à polypier de Frotey — 47.73°N, 6.00°EVršatec Limestone — 49.05°N, 18.19°EVršatec Limestone — 49.04°N, 18.16°ETataouine — 32.92°N, 10.45°ETataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°EHauptraugenstein — 47.48°N, 7.95°ELautaro — 29.11°S, 70.44°WCerkesli — 40.80°N, 29.55°ELalla Oujja — 30.57°N, 9.60°WLower Monte Bardia — 40.27°N, 9.62°ESchrattenkalk — 47.25°N, 9.33°ESchrattenkalk — 47.37°N, 10.13°ECerro de Oro — 29.75°N, 110.67°WSt. Ursanne — 47.41°N, 7.42°EMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EGuinea Corn — 18.15°N, 77.37°WTitanosarcolites Limestone — 18.33°N, 78.23°WStramberk — 49.58°N, 18.12°EAbadia — 38.93°N, 9.00°WSteeple Ashton Coral Bed — 51.33°N, 1.83°WStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°E

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The named rock units Cladophyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 87 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cladophyllia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

1,751 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 103 sites for Cladophyllia, 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 175 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 Cladophyllia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cladophyllia 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851