Disphyllum virgatum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DisphyllumPBDB
- 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 most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Disphyllum virgatum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
15 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
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The named rock units Disphyllum virgatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Disphyllum virgatum and its relatives
DevonianWhere Disphyllum virgatum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Aulopora5 sites
- Alveolites4 sites
- Alveolites suborbicularis4 sites
- Argutastrea hullensis4 sites
- Disphyllidae4 sites
- Thamnopora4 sites
- Catactoechus obliquus3 sites
- Disphyllum caespitosum3 sites
- Temnophyllum3 sites
- Temnophyllum turbinatum3 sites
- Catactoechus sp.2 sites
- Hexagonaria2 sites
- Hillastraea floriformis2 sites
- Metriophyllum2 sites
- Stromatoporella2 sites
- Syringaxon2 sites
- Zaphrenthis2 sites
- <Stromatolites>1 site
- Actinostroma1 site
- Alveolites saleei1 site
- Amphipora1 site
- Anostylostroma1 site
- Aristophyllum menyouense1 site
- Aulopora repens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Disphyllum virgatum, 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
4 references- Devonian corals from the Canning Basin, Western Australia6
- Middle and Upper Devonian rugose corals from the Canning Basin, Western Australia3
- The history of Devonian-Carboniferous reef communities: extinctions, effects, recovery3
- Notes on the palaeontology of Western Australia 2. Corals and Polyzoa3
Each of the 15 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 content0
No picture of Disphyllum virgatum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Disphyllum virgatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Disphyllum virgatum was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itDisphyllum through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hinde 1890)