Lithophyllon

Lithophyllon is a genus of stony corals in the family Fungiidae.

Lithophyllon

Oceanamazon · CC0 · 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
FungiidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Fungiidae
Life habit
epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Fungiidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Fungiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Fungiidae

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 44 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 44 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 44 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 44 occurrencesPleistocene — about 26 of 44 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.1–3.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 25 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

44 occurrences of Lithophyllon on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

44 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

9 formations

Era Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°EGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°EDarkhunish — 26.53°N, 57.58°EPucangan — 7.23°S, 112.75°ESondé — 8.00°S, 114.00°EKievskaya — 48.00°N, 33.42°EMandrikovka — 48.45°N, 34.98°ENuma — 34.97°N, 139.83°EMikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°E

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The named rock units Lithophyllon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lithophyllon and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Lithophyllon and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

472 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Lithophyllon, 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

20 references

Each of the 44 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. 8 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

Media content1

Picture of Lithophyllon

Credit
Oceanamazon
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lithophyllon 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.

The description on this site

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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 itFungiidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rehberg 1892