Meandrophyllia meandriformis

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

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 8.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous126–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121.4 Mya113.2 Mya126.3 Mya109.6 Mya

6 occurrences of Meandrophyllia meandriformis on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

6 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

4 formations

Mural Limestone — 29.75°N, 110.67°WZapotitlan — 18.40°N, 97.43°WMoshi Sandstone — 39.92°N, 141.93°EHiraiga Sandstone — 39.68°N, 141.98°E

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The named rock units Meandrophyllia meandriformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meandrophyllia meandriformis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Meandrophyllia meandriformis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

39 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Meandrophyllia meandriformis, 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

4 references

Each of the 6 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 Meandrophyllia meandriformis 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 Meandrophyllia meandriformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Meandrophyllia meandriformis 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 Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morycowa 1971)