Euphyllia

Euphyllia is a genus of large-polyped stony coral. Several species are commonly found in marine aquariums. The genus includes the following species:Euphyllia baliensis Turak, Devantier & Erdman, 2012 – bubble coral Euphyllia cristata Chevalier, 1971 – grape coral Euphyllia glabrescens (Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821) – torch coral Euphyllia paraglabrescens Veron, 1990

Euphyllia

Nevit Dilmen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
EuphylliidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Euphylliidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Euphylliidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Euphylliidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 63 occurrencesPaleocene — about 5 of 63 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 21 of 63 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 21 of 63 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 63 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 63 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 63 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 5 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 6 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 6 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 6 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

63 occurrences of Euphyllia on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

63 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

20 formations

Castelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.55°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.52°N, 11.48°ESalcedo — 45.77°N, 11.60°ESalayar — 6.18°S, 120.43°ENago Limestone — 45.89°N, 10.88°EWadi Thamat — 29.17°N, 19.00°ERiukiu Limestone — 28.33°N, 130.00°EQom — 34.64°N, 50.72°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°ENaha — 26.41°N, 127.74°ECalcareniti di Castelgomberto — 45.43°N, 11.52°ETermofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°EEptachorion — 40.13°N, 21.14°ETrstelj — 45.68°N, 13.97°EBarra Honda — 10.22°N, 85.25°WGornji Grad — 46.28°N, 14.25°EGhazij — 30.13°N, 67.26°EArguis — 42.37°N, 0.57°WMolare — 44.50°N, 8.48°ETsotili — 39.87°N, 21.69°ECozla — 47.33°N, 23.42°E

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The named rock units Euphyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Euphyllia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Euphyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

541 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Euphyllia, 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

38 references

Each of the 63 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. 26 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 Euphyllia

Credit
Nevit Dilmen
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Euphyllia 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEuphylliidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dana 1846