Flabellum

Flabellum is a genus of marine corals belonging to the family Flabellidae. These are a diverse group of azooxanthellate corals with about 190 species, 47 of which are extant. They are exclusively solitary corals and many are deep water species.

Flabellum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FlabellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Flabellidae

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 578 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 578 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 133 of 578 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 104 of 578 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 49 of 578 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 225 of 578 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 29 of 578 occurrencesPleistocene — about 34 of 578 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 24 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 72 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 28 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 13 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 6 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 5 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 10 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 11 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 55 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 14 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 6 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 30 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 23 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 48 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 70 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 58 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 27 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 26 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 43 occurrences66 Mya129 ka103 Mya0 Mya

578 occurrences of Flabellum on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

578 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

87 formations

Jagüel — 38.13°S, 68.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.32°WMoodys Branch — 31.77°N, 88.33°WMoodys Branch — 31.31°N, 86.48°WMoodys Branch — 31.03°N, 85.85°WMoodys Branch — 31.55°N, 87.58°WMoodys Branch — 31.14°N, 87.94°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.68°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 31.76°N, 92.96°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WWills Point — 30.17°N, 97.46°WWills Point — 30.08°N, 97.50°WWills Point — 30.27°N, 97.73°WWills Point — 30.00°N, 97.60°WWills Point — 31.74°N, 96.55°WWills Point — 30.59°N, 97.30°WWills Point — 29.89°N, 97.67°WWills Point — 29.76°N, 97.78°WWills Point — 30.53°N, 97.25°WTermofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°ELisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.87°N, 88.32°WLisbon — 31.70°N, 88.28°WLisbon — 31.13°N, 87.93°WLisbon — 32.80°N, 93.02°WPorters Creek — 32.12°N, 87.26°WPorters Creek — 31.99°N, 87.29°WPorters Creek — 31.93°N, 87.02°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.13°WPorters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.45°WPorters Creek — 31.97°N, 87.20°WPorters Creek — 32.23°N, 88.00°WPirabas — 1.18°S, 47.22°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.14°S, 47.15°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 1.23°S, 47.34°WKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WKincaid — 29.88°N, 97.67°WKincaid — 31.67°N, 96.47°WKincaid — 30.46°N, 97.39°WKincaid — 30.13°N, 97.47°WKincaid — 30.18°N, 97.48°WMartinez — 38.21°N, 122.02°WMartinez — 38.06°N, 122.24°WMartinez — 38.00°N, 122.20°WMartinez — 38.00°N, 122.10°WIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.22°EIhungia — 40.35°S, 176.28°ESanta Susana — 34.30°N, 118.68°WSanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.72°WNias — 1.12°N, 97.62°ENias — 0.92°N, 97.63°ENias — 0.87°N, 97.68°ENias — 1.08°N, 97.77°ENias — 1.40°N, 97.47°ENaheola — 32.14°N, 87.67°WNaheola — 32.20°N, 87.76°WNaheola — 31.99°N, 87.29°WNaheola — 31.90°N, 87.35°WGrand Bay — 12.47°N, 61.42°WYazoo Clay — 32.33°N, 90.15°WYazoo Clay — 31.25°N, 86.77°WYazoo Clay — 31.65°N, 87.71°WVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WVincentown — 39.94°N, 74.75°WSantee Limestone — 33.45°N, 80.16°WSantee Limestone — 33.41°N, 80.10°WSantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 79.69°WSantee Limestone — 33.35°N, 80.25°WAgatdal — 70.60°N, 53.05°WAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°WRoca — 37.56°S, 69.85°WMaanshan — 21.97°N, 120.76°EKeasey — 46.00°N, 123.26°WKeasey — 46.58°N, 123.61°WLodo — 36.60°N, 120.69°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WHornerstown — 39.90°N, 74.81°W

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The named rock units Flabellum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 63 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 259 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Flabellum and its relatives

Miocene

Where Flabellum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,812 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 256 sites for Flabellum, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

142 references

Each of the 578 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. 130 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 content2

Picture of Flabellum

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Nhobgood Nick Hobgood
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CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Lesson 1831