Furcophyllia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScleractiniaPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 41 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 241.464 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Furcophyllia on record, most of them in the Middle 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
2 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Furcophyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Furcophyllia and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Furcophyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Araiophyllum1 site
- Conophyllopsis gen1 site
- Conophyllopsis qamdoensis1 site
- Guembelastraea1 site
- Hydrasmilia1 site
- Hydrasmilia fossulata1 site
- Hydrasmilia ornamenta1 site
- Khytrastrea1 site
- Margarosmilia1 site
- Margarosmilia zieteni1 site
- Montlivaltia septafindens1 site
- Paracuifia1 site
- Pokljukosmilia1 site
- Pokljukosmilia tuvalica1 site
- Radiophyllia1 site
- Radiophyllia astylatus1 site
- Retiophyllia1 site
- Retiophyllia clathrata1 site
- Retiophyllia defilippi1 site
- Retiophyllia gracilis1 site
- Retiophyllia sellae1 site
- Stylophyllopsis1 site
- Stylophyllum1 site
- Thamnomargarosmilia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Furcophyllia, 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
2 references- Upper Triassic reef coral fauna in the Renacuo area, northern Tibet, and its implications for palaeobiogeography1
- The Middle Triassic scleractinia-like coral Furcophyllia from the Pamir Mountains1
Each of the 2 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. 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
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No picture of Furcophyllia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Furcophyllia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itScleractinia through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stolarski et al. 2004