Lophophyllidium proliferum

Lophophyllidium proliferum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LophophyllidiumPBDB
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 64 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 5 of 12 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 7 of 12 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrences325–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences322–320 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 1 occurrence303–300 Mya — about 2 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 1 occurrence298–295 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293–290 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–270 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences258–255 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 2 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 1 occurrence318.6 Mya254.14 Mya325 Mya250 Mya

12 occurrences of Lophophyllidium proliferum on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

12 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

8 formations

Mattoon — 39.12°N, 88.57°WMattoon — 39.18°N, 88.60°WChangxing — 29.49°N, 106.40°EBluff Creek — 31.58°N, 99.23°WHuanggangliang — 43.75°N, 119.64°EYuquan — 45.41°N, 127.17°ELongtan — 27.82°N, 112.72°EBreathitt — 37.63°N, 82.65°WWordiekammen limestones — 78.49°N, 16.79°E

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The named rock units Lophophyllidium proliferum 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.

Lophophyllidium proliferum and its relatives

Permian

Where Lophophyllidium proliferum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

302 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Lophophyllidium proliferum, 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

9 references

Each of the 12 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. 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 content2

Picture of Lophophyllidium proliferum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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 itLophophyllidium through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (McChesney 1860)