Distichophyllia tabulata
No picture of Distichophyllia tabulata 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 tabulata, 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 26 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Distichophyllia tabulata 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
3 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 tabulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Distichophyllia tabulata and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Distichophyllia tabulata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
132 taxa- Cuifia columnaris3 sites
- Agathammina1 site
- Agathammina austroalpina1 site
- Alpinophragmium1 site
- Amblysiphonella1 site
- Ammobaculites1 site
- Ammonoidea1 site
- Anguispongia1 site
- Anguispongia alpina1 site
- Annaecoelia1 site
- Annaecoelia mirabilis1 site
- Anthostylis acanthophora1 site
- Astraeomorpha crassisepta1 site
- Aulotortus1 site
- Austrocolomia1 site
- Baccanella floriformis1 site
- Bacinella1 site
- Bacinella irregularis1 site
- Bigenerina1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Carterina alpina1 site
- Cayeuxia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Distichophyllia tabulata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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
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No picture of Distichophyllia tabulata 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 tabulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Distichophyllia tabulata 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. Roniewicz 1995