Diplhelia

Diplhelia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OculininaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Oculinidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Faviina
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Oculinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 11 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.4–8.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.7–7.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.9–7.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.1–6.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.4–5.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.6–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23.04 Mya11.63 Mya27.8 Mya4.8 Mya

11 occurrences of Diplhelia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

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

2 formations

Termofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°ESareweh — 7.75°S, 110.13°E

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The named rock units Diplhelia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diplhelia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Diplhelia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

236 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Diplhelia, 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

6 references

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Diplhelia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Diplhelia 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 itOculininae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850