Dendrophyllia cornigera

Fernando Losada Rodríguez · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- DendrophylliaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Dendrophyllia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Dendrophyllia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.
11 occurrences of Dendrophyllia cornigera 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
11 occurrences- Oligocene18%
- Miocene36%
- Pliocene9%
- Pleistocene36%
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.
Dendrophyllia cornigera and its relatives
MioceneWhere Dendrophyllia cornigera and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
112 taxa- Coralliophila2 sites
- Acropora haidingeri1 site
- Acropora pachymorpha1 site
- Agaricia1 site
- Alveopora1 site
- Ammonia1 site
- Antiguastrea alveolaris1 site
- Antillophyllia1 site
- Aquitanastraea incrustans1 site
- Argilloecia1 site
- Asperarca1 site
- Astrangia manthelanensis1 site
- Astreopora auvertiaca1 site
- Astreopora densata1 site
- Astreopora subcylindrica1 site
- Balanophyllia thalassae1 site
- Balanophyllia varians1 site
- Bigenerina1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brizalina1 site
- Bulimina1 site
- Bulimina marginata1 site
- Bythocypris1 site
- Caryophyllia calveri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dendrophyllia cornigera, 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
8 references- Les faunes de coraux (Anthozoaires Scléractiniaires) de la façade atlantique française au Chattien et au Miocène3
- Pleistocene to recent scleractinian deep-water corals and coral facies in the eastern Mediterranean2
- New paleoenvironmental insights on the Miocene condensed phosphatic layer of Salento (southern Italy) unlocked by the coral‑mollusc fossil archive1
- Pleistocene (Calabrian) deep-water corals and associated biodiversity in the eastern Mediterranean (Karpathos Island, Greece)1
- Shallow-buried Pleistocene Madrepora-dominated coral mounds on a muddy continental slope, Tuscan Archipelago, NE Tyrrhenian Sea1
- Structural and faunal evolution of Chattian-Miocene reefs and corals in western France and the northeastern Atlantic Ocean1
- La faune de coraux de l'Oligocene superieur de La Teoulere (Peyrehorade, Landes) [The Upper Oligocene coral fauna from La Teoulere (Peyrehorade, Landes)]1
- Les Madreporaires du Pliocene d'orosei ( Nuoro, Sardaigne)1
Each of the 11 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 Dendrophyllia cornigera
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Fernando Losada Rodríguez
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dendrophyllia cornigera 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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What may have been alongside itDendrophyllia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1816)