Kakwiphyllum

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyathopsidaePBDB
- 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 7.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 342.9 Mya and 335.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Kakwiphyllum on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous100%
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 Kakwiphyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kakwiphyllum and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Kakwiphyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Allorisma1 site
- Amplexizaphrentis1 site
- Brachythyris1 site
- Buxtonia1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Chonetes1 site
- Composita1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Dictyoclostus1 site
- Dimegelasma1 site
- Diphyphyllum1 site
- Ekvasophyllum1 site
- Lyropora1 site
- Naticopsis1 site
- Orthotetes1 site
- Pentremites1 site
- Platyrachella1 site
- Rhipidomella1 site
- Spirifer1 site
- Syringopora1 site
- Torynifer1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Kakwiphyllum, 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
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Kakwiphyllum
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Kakwiphyllum 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 itCyathopsidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sutherland 1954