Meandrophyllia steini

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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 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 152.21 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 7 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 7 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous153–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences149.2 Mya121.4 Mya152.9 Mya118.9 Mya

7 occurrences of Meandrophyllia steini 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

7 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

Cumburindio — 18.52°N, 100.93°WZapotitlan — 18.40°N, 97.43°WTendaguru — 9.62°S, 39.25°EYokonuma — 38.83°N, 141.62°E

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The named rock units Meandrophyllia steini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meandrophyllia steini and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

50 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Meandrophyllia steini, 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 7 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 steini 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 steini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Meandrophyllia steini was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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. (Felix 1891)