Grypophyllum jenkinsi
No picture of Grypophyllum jenkinsi 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 jenkinsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GrypophyllumPBDB
- 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 most 9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 410.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Grypophyllum jenkinsi 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
2 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Grypophyllum jenkinsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Grypophyllum jenkinsi and its relatives
DevonianWhere Grypophyllum jenkinsi and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Acanthophyllum1 site
- Acanthophyllum clermontense1 site
- Australophyllum1 site
- Lyrielasma1 site
- Pseudochonophyllum1 site
- Spongophyllum1 site
- Taimyrophyllum1 site
- Xystriphyllum dunstani1 site
- Xystriphyllum magnum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Grypophyllum jenkinsi, 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- Pragian (Lower Devonian) stromatoporoids and rugose corals from Zújar (Sierra Morena, southern Spain)1
- Spongophyllidae from the Devonian Garra Formation, New South Wales1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Grypophyllum jenkinsi 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 jenkinsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Grypophyllum jenkinsi was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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What may have been alongside itGrypophyllum through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Strusz 1966)