Grypophyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtenophyllidaePBDB
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 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 97 occurrencesDevonian — about 97 of 97 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 97 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences415–412 Mya — about 1 occurrence412–410 Mya — about 2 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences404–402 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 5 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 5 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 13 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 22 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 22 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 13 occurrences381–379 Mya — about 3 occurrences379–377 Mya — about 1 occurrence377–374 Mya — about 1 occurrence374–372 Mya — about 1 occurrence372–370 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences370–368 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410.62 Mya382.31 Mya421 Mya358 Mya

97 occurrences of Grypophyllum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

97 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

44 formations

Horn Plateau — 62.25°N, 119.25°WHorn Plateau — 61.77°N, 122.58°WHorn Plateau — 62.18°N, 117.53°WHorn Plateau — 61.75°N, 122.23°WHorn Plateau — 62.93°N, 125.18°WTorringen — 51.02°N, 7.18°ETorringen — 50.98°N, 7.10°EPillara — 18.50°S, 125.87°EPillara — 18.63°S, 125.87°EGarra — 33.00°S, 149.00°EChercombe Bridge Limestone — 50.53°N, 3.65°WHa Lang — 22.68°N, 106.67°EHa Lang — 22.23°N, 106.18°EBan Pap — 21.18°N, 105.07°EBan Pap — 21.43°N, 104.12°ERamparts — 65.28°N, 126.85°WDonggangling — 22.39°N, 107.55°EAcanthopyge Limestone — 49.50°N, 17.00°EChernaya Bay Horizon — 72.00°N, 52.00°EBou Dib — 31.19°N, 4.93°WBurdekin — 19.73°S, 146.43°ETorquay Limestone — 50.45°N, 3.50°WBuechel — 51.00°N, 7.17°ESchwelm Limestone — 51.30°N, 7.28°EOberhonsel — 51.30°N, 7.33°EKarpinsk — 59.57°N, 59.98°ESolonchatskaya — 51.77°N, 59.10°EKeg River — 59.17°N, 122.17°WSlave Point — 61.18°N, 115.93°WSlave Point — 59.12°N, 112.57°WSafonovski — 54.30°N, 86.23°ESafonovski — 54.37°N, 86.18°ECürten — 50.38°N, 6.70°EWindmill Limestone — 38.87°N, 117.92°W

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The named rock units Grypophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Grypophyllum and its relatives

Devonian

Where Grypophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

296 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Grypophyllum, 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

42 references

Each of the 97 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. 30 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

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No picture of Grypophyllum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Grypophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Grypophyllum 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.

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. Wedekind 1922