Comophyllia

Comophyllia is an extinct genus of prehistoric stony corals in the family Latomeandridae. Species are known from the Jurassic and Cretaceous. C. elegans, the type species, is from the Jurassic of France.

Comophyllia

RECOLNAT (ANR-11-INBS-0004) - Peter MASSICARD · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LatomeandridaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Latomeandridae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Latomeandridae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 64 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 34 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 34 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 25 of 34 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 34 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous195–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences189–186 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences186–183 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences177–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–172 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences172–169 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences169–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 2 occurrences160–157 Mya — about 2 occurrences157–154 Mya — about 4 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 10 occurrences152–149 Mya — about 4 occurrences149–146 Mya — about 3 occurrences146–143 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences143–140 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184.2 Mya119.57 Mya195 Mya108 Mya

34 occurrences of Comophyllia 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

34 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

10 formations

Baghamshah — 32.42°N, 57.00°EBaghamshah — 33.00°N, 56.50°EBaghamshah — 33.92°N, 57.33°EAmaral — 39.02°N, 9.02°WAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.18°WAmaral — 39.02°N, 9.08°WMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°ECabeca — 37.08°N, 8.25°WCabeca — 37.15°N, 7.88°WAbadia — 38.93°N, 9.00°WBadamu — 33.50°N, 58.00°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WSanganeh — 36.18°N, 59.83°ESlivnitsa — 42.77°N, 22.75°EValfin — 46.43°N, 5.85°E

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The named rock units Comophyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Comophyllia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

573 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Comophyllia, 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

18 references

Each of the 34 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. 6 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 Comophyllia

Credit
RECOLNAT (ANR-11-INBS-0004) - Peter MASSICARD
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Comophyllia 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLatomeandridae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. D'Orbigny 1849