Kyphophyllum nevadensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
KyphophyllumPBDB
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 3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Silurian — about 2 of 3 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 3 occurrencesDevonian427–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422.7 Mya419.62 Mya427.2 Mya412.5 Mya

3 occurrences of Kyphophyllum nevadensis 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

3 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

2 formations

Vaughn Gulch — 36.82°N, 118.08°WMcMonnigal Limestone — 39.07°N, 116.72°W

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

Kyphophyllum nevadensis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Kyphophyllum nevadensis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Kyphophyllum nevadensis, 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 reference

Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Kyphophyllum nevadensis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia 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 Kyphophyllum nevadensis, 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 itKyphophyllum through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Merriam 1973)