Menophyllum

Menophyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyathopsidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At most 36 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 3 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous360–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences359.6 Mya322.7 Mya

3 occurrences of Menophyllum on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

3 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

Fitchville — 38.90°N, 111.75°WTin Mountain — 36.39°N, 117.43°W

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The named rock units Menophyllum 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.

Menophyllum and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Menophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

76 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Menophyllum, 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

Each of the 3 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 Menophyllum

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

No 3D scan of Menophyllum 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 itCyathopsidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850