Dalmanophyllum

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DalmanophyllinaePBDB
- 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 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 454 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
14 occurrences of Dalmanophyllum on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
14 occurrences- Ordovician21%
- Silurian79%
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
- Brassfield Formation3
- Louisville Limestone Formation2
- Gazelle Formation2
- Westfield Beds Formation1
- Bulongguoer Formation1
- Woduhe Formation1
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The named rock units Dalmanophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dalmanophyllum and its relatives
SilurianWhere Dalmanophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
156 taxa- Tryplasma6 sites
- Heliolites5 sites
- Favosites favosus4 sites
- Propora4 sites
- Rhegmaphyllum4 sites
- Arachnophyllum3 sites
- Calostylis3 sites
- Catenipora3 sites
- Craterophyllum3 sites
- Cyathactis3 sites
- Cystiphyllum3 sites
- Favosites3 sites
- Alveolites2 sites
- Asthenophyllum2 sites
- Bumastus2 sites
- Dinophyllum2 sites
- Dolerorthis2 sites
- Entelophyllum2 sites
- Favosites hisingeri2 sites
- Halysites2 sites
- Holophragma2 sites
- Kjerulfina2 sites
- Lepidocyclus2 sites
- Onniella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Dalmanophyllum, 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
9 references- The corals of the Brassfield Formation (mid-Llandovery, Lower Silurian) in the Cincinnati Arch Region3
- Silurian rugose corals of the central and southwest Great Basin2
- Silurian rugose corals of the Klamath Mountains region, California2
- Silurian and Devonian Corals of the Falls of the Ohio2
- The base of the Silurian System in Tasmania1
- Community paleoecology as a geologic tool: the Chinese Ashgillian-Eifelian (latest Ordovician through early Middle Devonian) as an example1
- Regional stratigraphic tables of the north western China region: Volume of XingJiang Province1
- Razrez ordovika i silura reki Moiero, Sibirskaya platforma (Ordovician and Silurian sequence of the Moiero River, Siberian platform)1
- Ordovician stratigraphy of the Florentine Synclinorium, southwest Tasmania1
Each of the 14 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 Dalmanophyllum
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Dalmanophyllum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDalmanophyllinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lang and Smith 1939