Clisiophyllum

Clisiophyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ClisiophyllinaePBDB
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 170 million years on record.

The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Silurian — about 2 of 73 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 73 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 57 of 73 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 11 of 73 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 73 occurrences442–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences371–365 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences365–358 Mya — about 3 occurrences358–352 Mya — about 2 occurrences352–345 Mya — about 4 occurrences345–339 Mya — about 11 occurrences339–332 Mya — about 19 occurrences332–326 Mya — about 14 occurrences326–319 Mya — about 6 occurrences319–313 Mya — about 1 occurrence313–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–300 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300–293 Mya — about 3 occurrences293–287 Mya — about 2 occurrences287–281 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences281–274 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences274–268 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences268–261 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences261–255 Mya — about 3 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430.6 Mya259.857 Mya442 Mya248 Mya

73 occurrences of Clisiophyllum on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

73 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

37 formations

Idmarrach — 33.53°N, 5.39°WIdmarrach — 33.43°N, 5.22°WMoel Hiraddug Limestone — 53.32°N, 3.42°WMoel Hiraddug Limestone — 53.42°N, 3.00°WTin Mountain — 36.74°N, 117.45°WTin Mountain — 36.75°N, 117.48°WWaterhouses Limestone — 53.03°N, 1.87°WWaterhouses Limestone — 52.80°N, 2.10°WSecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WMcCloud — 40.72°N, 122.30°WBricklieve Limestone — 54.10°N, 8.25°WBricklieve Limestone — 54.05°N, 8.37°WWapnica — 50.55°N, 16.55°EBou-Rifi — 32.92°N, 5.65°WWeaver Beds — 52.80°N, 2.10°WLower Visby Beds — 57.63°N, 18.30°EUpper Visby Beds — 57.63°N, 18.30°ERoque Redonde — 43.53°N, 3.20°ERed Hill Oolite — 54.17°N, 3.18°WUm Bogma — 29.06°N, 33.13°ERoc de Murviel — 43.55°N, 3.33°EMcCloud Limestone — 40.85°N, 122.26°WDagangou — 36.08°N, 94.92°EGayle Shale — 54.30°N, 2.15°WGayle Limestone Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WFive Yard Limestone VI — 54.30°N, 2.15°WUnderset Limestone VIII — 54.30°N, 2.15°WMain Limestone IX — 54.30°N, 2.15°WLlandudno Pier Dolomite — 53.30°N, 3.80°W

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The named rock units Clisiophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clisiophyllum and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Clisiophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

777 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Clisiophyllum, 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

38 references

Each of the 73 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. 26 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 Clisiophyllum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Dana 1846