Cladophyllia babeana

Cladophyllia babeana

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CladophylliaPBDB
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 400 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 168.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 165.3 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 22 of 22 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic171–171 Mya — about 1 occurrence171–171 Mya — about 2 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 2 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 2 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 2 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 2 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 2 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 2 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 2 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 2 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 2 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.6 Mya – 168.2 Mya171.4 Mya164.8 Mya

22 occurrences of Cladophyllia babeana on record, most of them in the Middle 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

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

4 formations

Calcaire à polypier de Frotey — 47.73°N, 6.00°EVršatec Limestone — 49.05°N, 18.19°EVršatec Limestone — 49.04°N, 18.16°EWhite Limestone — 51.70°N, 1.78°WCalcaire d’Audun-le-Tiche — 49.47°N, 6.02°E

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The named rock units Cladophyllia babeana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cladophyllia babeana and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Cladophyllia babeana and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

83 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Cladophyllia babeana, 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

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 content1

Picture of Cladophyllia babeana

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

No 3D scan of Cladophyllia babeana 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 itCladophyllia through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1850)