Dendrophyllia

Dendrophyllia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DendrophylliidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 5 of 216 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 66 of 216 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 23 of 216 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 15 of 216 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 83 of 216 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 216 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 216 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–65 Mya — about 7 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 26 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 12 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 16 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 7 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–48 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 6 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 7 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–26 Mya — about 5 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 8 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 6 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 14 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 17 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 19 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 15 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 10 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences66 Mya129 ka85 Mya0 Mya

216 occurrences of Dendrophyllia on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

216 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

51 formations

Termofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°EGhibirti — 11.03°N, 51.03°EGhibirti — 10.80°N, 51.05°EGhibirti — 11.00°N, 51.07°ELisbon — 32.50°N, 93.03°WLisbon — 32.20°N, 92.82°WLisbon — 31.60°N, 87.55°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.50°WTrstelj — 45.68°N, 13.97°ETrstelj — 45.57°N, 14.00°ETavo — 11.03°N, 51.03°ETavo — 7.95°N, 49.83°ETejon — 34.92°N, 118.93°WTejon — 34.94°N, 118.82°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.84°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WSimsima — 25.72°N, 55.82°ESimsima — 25.02°N, 55.78°EClacare di Mendicino — 39.18°N, 16.27°ERed Bluff Tuff — 44.30°S, 176.25°WGianti — 10.42°N, 51.02°EGianti — 11.03°N, 51.03°EPirabas — 0.77°S, 47.18°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WRasov — 48.80°N, 17.73°ESanto Spirito — 42.17°N, 14.17°ETitanosarcolites Limestone — 18.33°N, 78.23°WNullarbor Limestone — 30.85°S, 128.08°ESalt Mountain Limestone — 31.43°N, 87.92°WGarra? — 25.67°N, 29.92°EPucangan — 7.23°S, 112.75°EAuradu Limestone — 10.33°N, 45.05°ERudeis — 27.30°N, 33.58°EBrèches rouges de Carboneras — 37.60°N, 1.32°WSicilian — 38.15°N, 15.65°EZongshan — 28.30°N, 88.53°E

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The named rock units Dendrophyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 132 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dendrophyllia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Dendrophyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,500 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 80 sites for Dendrophyllia, 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

88 references

Each of the 216 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. 76 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 Dendrophyllia

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Dendrophyllia 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blainville 1830