Margarophyllia vortica
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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 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Margarophyllia vortica 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
11 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Margarophyllia vortica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Margarophyllia vortica and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Margarophyllia vortica and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
162 taxa- Cassianella9 sites
- Cidaris9 sites
- Diholkorhynchia sinensis9 sites
- Elegantinia9 sites
- Encrinus liliiformis9 sites
- Mentzelia subspherica9 sites
- Newaagia9 sites
- Protostrea sinensis9 sites
- Solenopora9 sites
- Weixiserpula9 sites
- Arcavicula8 sites
- Balanocrinus8 sites
- Bivalvia8 sites
- Cassianella simplex8 sites
- Elegantarca subareata8 sites
- Lepismatina hsui8 sites
- Praechlamys8 sites
- Pteria8 sites
- Qingyanocrinus kueichounensis8 sites
- Septaliphorioidea paucicostata8 sites
- Thecocyrtelloidea tubulosa8 sites
- Wortheniella8 sites
- Coelostylina liscaviensis7 sites
- Elegantinia elegans7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Margarophyllia vortica, 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
3 references- Fossilvergesellschaftungen, Paläoökologie und paläosynökologische Entwicklung im Oberen Anisium (Mittlere Trias) von Qingyan, insbesondere Bangtoupo, Provinz Guizhou, Südwestchina9
- Middle Triassic corals from W. Guangxi and S. Guizhou1
- Middle Triassic corals and sponges from southern Guizhou and eastern Yunnan1
Each of the 11 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
Media content0
No picture of Margarophyllia vortica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Margarophyllia vortica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deng and Kong 1984