Margarophyllia

No picture of Margarophyllia 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 Margarophyllia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MargarophylliidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Margarophylliidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Margarophylliidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 71 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 21 of 71 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 50 of 71 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 71 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 5 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 6 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 2 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 4 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 5 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 12 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 12 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 5 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 4 occurrences231–229 Mya — about 4 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 4 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241.464 Mya211.18 Mya247.9 Mya200.5 Mya

71 occurrences of Margarophyllia on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

71 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

15 formations

Cassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.53°N, 12.13°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.92°EQingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°EDachstein — 47.45°N, 13.07°EDachstein — 47.63°N, 13.17°EDachstein — 47.45°N, 13.69°EZhuganpo — 25.38°N, 105.71°EHanwang — 31.45°N, 104.15°EHanwang — 31.63°N, 104.40°EPantokrator limestone — 37.33°N, 23.47°ECoryphyllia Beds — 44.55°N, 135.57°ELanmu — 24.62°N, 104.29°EMailonggang — 29.85°N, 91.63°ELanasha — 31.81°N, 98.58°EKoguchi — 32.29°N, 130.60°EWetterstein — 47.70°N, 12.02°EYazhi — 28.64°N, 87.12°EJiapila — 31.50°N, 98.22°EQuagasi — 31.81°N, 98.58°E

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The named rock units Margarophyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Margarophyllia and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Margarophyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

487 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Margarophyllia, 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

27 references

Each of the 71 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. 15 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 content0

No picture of Margarophyllia 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 Margarophyllia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Margarophyllia 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 itMargarophylliidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Volz 1896