Margarophyllia crenata

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MargarophylliaPBDB
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 3.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 233.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 239.48 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 9 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 8 of 9 occurrencesLate Triassic240–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences235–235 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences231–231 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences228–228 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237 Mya233.6 Mya240 Mya226.8 Mya

9 occurrences of Margarophyllia crenata 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

9 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

Cassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.53°N, 12.13°EPantokrator limestone — 37.33°N, 23.47°E

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The named rock units Margarophyllia crenata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Margarophyllia crenata and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

170 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Margarophyllia crenata, 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

6 references

Each of the 9 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

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Münster 1841)