Coryphyllia elliptica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CoryphylliaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Reimaniphylliidae
- 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 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 233.6 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
3 occurrences of Coryphyllia elliptica on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
3 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Coryphyllia elliptica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Coryphyllia elliptica and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Coryphyllia elliptica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
206 taxa- Amblysiphonella2 sites
- Astraeomorpha crassisepta2 sites
- Chondrocoenia schafhaeutli2 sites
- Colospongia2 sites
- Cuifia2 sites
- Distichophyllia norica2 sites
- Pamiroseris rectilamellosa2 sites
- Parachaetetes2 sites
- Shamovella obscura2 sites
- Solenolmia2 sites
- Solenolmia manon2 sites
- Solenopora2 sites
- Uvanella irregularis2 sites
- Agathammina1 site
- Agathammina austroalpina1 site
- Alpinophragmium1 site
- Alpinothalamia bavarica1 site
- Alpinothalamia slovenica1 site
- Amblysiphonella loerentheyi1 site
- Ammobaculites1 site
- Ammonoidea1 site
- Anguispongia1 site
- Anguispongia alpina1 site
- Annaecoelia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Coryphyllia elliptica, 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
3 references- Atlas Triasovykh Bespozvonochnykh Pamira1
- Upper Triassic (Carnian-lowermost Norian) corals from the Pantokrator Limestone of Hydra (Greece)1
- Triassic Corals of the Zlambach Beds, Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Coryphyllia elliptica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Coryphyllia elliptica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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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What may have been alongside itCoryphyllia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Melnikova 1975)