Flabellum
Searched as Flabellum intermedium effusa. The Paleobiology Database treats Flabellum as the accepted name.
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.
Nhobgood Nick Hobgood · 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
- FlabellidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Flabellidae
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 7.246 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Flabellum on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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- Miocene100%
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.
Flabellum and its relatives
MioceneWhere Flabellum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
2,812 taxa- Turritella79 sites
- Dentalium43 sites
- Naticidae37 sites
- Limopsis34 sites
- Lentigodentalium33 sites
- Spiroplectammina carinata33 sites
- Astarte (Astarte) radiata32 sites
- Cibicides lobatulus32 sites
- Dentalina konincki32 sites
- Elphidium32 sites
- Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita32 sites
- Varicorbula gibba32 sites
- Globulina gibba31 sites
- Cibicides dutemplei30 sites
- Lenticulina (Lenticulina)30 sites
- Reussirella30 sites
- Textularia gramen30 sites
- Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella30 sites
- Yoldiella30 sites
- Dentalina29 sites
- Lenticulina (Robulus)29 sites
- Lunulites29 sites
- Nodosaria29 sites
- Dentalium (Pseudantilis)28 sites
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
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
Media content2
Picture of Flabellum
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Nhobgood Nick Hobgood
- Licence
- 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 was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFlabellidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lesson 1831