Distichophyllia

Distichophyllia

Dercourt · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
ReimaniphylliidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Reimaniphylliidae
Life habit
solitaryPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 192.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 184.2 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 90 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 90 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 85 of 90 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 90 occurrencesEarly Jurassic248–246 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–244 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 1 occurrence231–229 Mya — about 1 occurrence229–226 Mya — about 3 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 6 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 6 occurrences222–220 Mya — about 6 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 6 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 6 occurrences216–213 Mya — about 4 occurrences213–211 Mya — about 4 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 7 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 7 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 9 occurrences205–203 Mya — about 12 occurrences203–200 Mya — about 6 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences189–187 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences187–185 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences241.464 Mya192.9 Mya248 Mya183 Mya

90 occurrences of Distichophyllia on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

90 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

27 formations

Zlambach — 47.62°N, 13.73°EZlambach — 47.50°N, 13.50°EZlambach — 47.55°N, 13.65°EZlambach — 47.75°N, 13.50°ENayband — 33.12°N, 51.98°ENayband — 32.37°N, 57.47°ENayband — 34.06°N, 58.08°EBortepa — 37.50°N, 74.50°EBortepa — 37.47°N, 74.73°EBortepa — 37.33°N, 75.00°EBortepa — 39.27°N, 73.45°EMartin Bridge — 44.97°N, 117.23°WMartin Bridge — 44.95°N, 117.33°WMartin Bridge — 46.29°N, 116.69°WDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°EDachstein — 47.63°N, 13.17°EDachstein — 47.45°N, 13.69°ECornwallis — 56.43°N, 133.87°WCornwallis — 56.90°N, 133.98°WCornwallis — 57.21°N, 134.08°WChambara — 10.85°S, 76.17°WChambara — 10.85°S, 75.98°WMartin Bridge Limestone — 45.12°N, 116.83°WMartin Bridge Limestone — 46.33°N, 116.73°WDachstein — 46.43°N, 13.88°EBanna — 23.77°N, 106.88°EChitistone — 61.51°N, 142.76°WLuning — 38.43°N, 118.05°WQuagasi — 31.81°N, 98.58°EJebel Wasa — 24.70°N, 55.87°EHosselkus — 40.80°N, 122.12°WChaiburi — 7.12°N, 100.17°EKoguchi — 32.29°N, 130.60°EAdnet — 47.70°N, 13.17°ENutekin — 63.40°N, 176.99°EPac Ma — 21.50°N, 104.00°EParson Bay — 48.86°N, 124.23°WKuta — 6.03°S, 144.84°EHound Island Volcanics — 56.82°N, 133.98°WMailonggang — 29.85°N, 91.63°E

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The named rock units Distichophyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Distichophyllia and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Distichophyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

721 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Distichophyllia, 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

44 references

Each of the 90 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. 32 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 Distichophyllia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Dercourt
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Distichophyllia 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. Cuif 1974