Meandrophyllia corrugata

Meandrophyllia corrugata

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 125.77 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 10 of 14 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 14 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous162–161 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–136 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154.8 Mya132.6 Mya162.2 Mya125.1 Mya

14 occurrences of Meandrophyllia corrugata on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

14 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

1 formation

Oehrli — 47.38°N, 9.73°EOehrli — 47.40°N, 9.98°E

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The named rock units Meandrophyllia corrugata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meandrophyllia corrugata and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Meandrophyllia corrugata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

213 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Meandrophyllia corrugata, 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 14 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 content1

Picture of Meandrophyllia corrugata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Meandrophyllia corrugata 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 itMeandrophyllia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Michelin 1843)