Goniophyllum

Goniophyllum is an Silurian genus of rugose coral known from Sweden, Norway, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. It is easily identified by its "lids" and distinct square shape. The genus was described by Milne-Edwards et Haime in 1851.

Goniophyllum

Oskar josefsson · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
GoniophyllidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 2.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 430.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 6 occurrencesSilurian — about 6 of 6 occurrencesSilurian444–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences432.9 Mya430.6 Mya443.6 Mya426.2 Mya

6 occurrences of Goniophyllum on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

6 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

5 formations

Scotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 42.17°N, 91.10°WFossil Hill — 45.83°N, 82.33°WLower Visby Beds — 57.63°N, 18.30°EUpper Visby Beds — 57.63°N, 18.30°EMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°W

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The named rock units Goniophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Goniophyllum and its relatives

Silurian

Where Goniophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

216 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Goniophyllum, 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

5 references

Each of the 6 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

Media content1

Picture of Goniophyllum

Credit
Oskar josefsson
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Goniophyllum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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.

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What may have been alongside itGoniophyllidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850