Cladophyllia furcifera
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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 47 million years on record.
The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 66 Mya.
12 occurrences of Cladophyllia furcifera on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
12 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
6 formations
- Edwards Limestone Formation · Fredericksburg Group4
- Guinea Corn Formation1
- Titanosarcolites Limestone Formation1
- Sanganeh Formation1
- Schrattenkalk Formation1
- Schrattenkalk Formation1
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The named rock units Cladophyllia furcifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cladophyllia furcifera and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Cladophyllia furcifera and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
92 taxa- Cyathophora pulchella3 sites
- Acrosmilia2 sites
- Actinaraea tenuis2 sites
- Amphiaulastrea conferta2 sites
- Amphiaulastrea rarauensis2 sites
- Camptodocis brancai2 sites
- Cladophyllia crenata2 sites
- Clausastrea plana2 sites
- Columnocoenia ksiazkiewiczi2 sites
- Comoseris aptiensis2 sites
- Comoseris jireceki2 sites
- Dermosmilia fiagdonensis2 sites
- Dermosmilia tuapensis2 sites
- Ellipsocoenia haimei2 sites
- Eugyra (Felixigyra) crassa2 sites
- Eugyra (Felixigyra) picteti2 sites
- Eugyra cotteaui2 sites
- Eugyra pusilla2 sites
- Felixigyra patruliusi2 sites
- Heliocoenia vadosa2 sites
- Heterocoenia minima2 sites
- Myriophyllia propria2 sites
- Paretallonia bendukidzeae2 sites
- Polyphylloseris mammillata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cladophyllia furcifera, 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
6 references- Corals of the Cretaceous of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains and Western Interior of the United States4
- pers. comm.3
- Upper Barremian-lower Aptian scleractinian corals of central Europe (Schrattenkalk Fm., Helvetic Zone, Austria, Germany, Switzerland)2
- Lower Cretaceous corals from the Koppeh Dagh, NE-Iran1
- Cretaceous scleractinian corals from the Albian of Cabo de Ajo (Cantabria Province, N-Spain)1
- Korallen der höheren Unterkreide ("Urgon") von Nordspanien (Playa de Laga, Prov. Guernica)1
Each of the 12 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
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No picture of Cladophyllia furcifera 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 Cladophyllia furcifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cladophyllia furcifera 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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What may have been alongside itCladophyllia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roemer 1888