Distichophyllia melnikovae
No picture of Distichophyllia melnikovae 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 Distichophyllia melnikovae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DistichophylliaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Reimaniphylliidae
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Distichophyllia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 215.38 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Distichophyllia melnikovae 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
1 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Distichophyllia melnikovae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Distichophyllia melnikovae and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Distichophyllia melnikovae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Ampakabastraea1 site
- Ampakabastraea cowichanensis1 site
- Astraeomorpha crassisepta1 site
- Chondrocoenia paradoxa1 site
- Crassistella juvavica1 site
- Distichomeandra1 site
- Distichophyllia norica1 site
- Gablonzeria profunda1 site
- Kuhnastraea decussata1 site
- Margarosmilia charlyana1 site
- Margarosmilia confluens1 site
- Pamiroseris meriani1 site
- Paracuifia jennieae1 site
- Paradelphinulopsis vallieri1 site
- Retiophyllia caespitosa1 site
- Retiophyllia clathrata1 site
- Retiophyllia dawsoni1 site
- Retiophyllia norica1 site
- Retiophyllia obtusa1 site
- Retiophyllia oppeli1 site
- Retiophyllia parviseptum1 site
- Retiophyllia tenuicosta1 site
- Spinidelphinulopsis whaleni1 site
- Zugmayerella americana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Distichophyllia melnikovae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Distichophyllia melnikovae 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 Distichophyllia melnikovae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Distichophyllia melnikovae 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 itDistichophyllia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Montanaro-Gallitelli et al. 1979