Margarophyllia inculta

No picture of Margarophyllia inculta 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 inculta, 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 most 15 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 241.464 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate Triassic241–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.1 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 0.2 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences235–235 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences231–231 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences228–228 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences242 Mya226.8 Mya

2 occurrences of Margarophyllia inculta on record, most of them in the Middle 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

2 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

Coryphyllia Beds — 44.55°N, 135.57°EZhuganpo — 25.38°N, 105.71°E

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

Margarophyllia inculta and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Margarophyllia inculta and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Margarophyllia inculta, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Margarophyllia inculta 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deng and Kong 1984