Omphalophyllia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ConophyllidaePBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 25 million years on record.
The record covers at least 237 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
38 occurrences of Omphalophyllia on record, most of them in the Late 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
38 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
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The named rock units Omphalophyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Omphalophyllia and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Omphalophyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
630 taxa- Margarophyllia capitata9 sites
- Margarosmilia confluens9 sites
- Margarosmilia zieteni8 sites
- Remismilia sublaevis8 sites
- Volzeia subdichotoma8 sites
- Retiophyllia7 sites
- Colospongia dubia6 sites
- Solenolmia manon6 sites
- Guembelastraea guembeli5 sites
- Margarophyllia5 sites
- Margarosmilia septanectens5 sites
- Montlivaltia radiciformis5 sites
- Protoheterastrea leonhardi5 sites
- Shamovella obscura5 sites
- Toechastraea5 sites
- Cassianastraea reussi4 sites
- Celyphia submarginata4 sites
- Craspedophyllia alpina4 sites
- Craspedophyllia cristata4 sites
- Echinoidea4 sites
- Margarophyllia crenata4 sites
- Margarosmilia4 sites
- Margarosmilia richthofeni4 sites
- Montlivaltia4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Omphalophyllia, 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
11 references- Die Korallen der Schichten von St Cassian in Süd-Tirol16
- Biostratinomy and palaeoecology of the Cassian Formation (Triassic) of the Southern Alps5
- Beiträge zur Geognosie und Petrefacten-Kunde des südöstlichen Tirols vorzüglich der Schichten von St. Cassian5
- Mesozoic corals of Slovenia3
- Triassic Reefs in Slovenia3
- New opinions on coral taxonomy1
- Primary collection data of Cassian Formation used for publication of Fürsich and Wendt (1977) (ref. 9188)1
- Supplemental notes on Mesozoic Scleractinia from Mts. Hengduan, Southwest China1
- Paläontologie, Fazies und Geochemie der Dachstein-Kalke (Ober-Trias) im südwestlichen Gesäuse, Steiermark, Österreich1
- Fazies-Gliederung und Paläogeographie des Ladins in den bayerischen Kalkalpen zwischen Wendelstein und Kampenwand [Ladinian facies and paleogeography in the Bavarian Alps between Wendelstein and Kampenwand]1
- Die Fauna der sogenannten Cardita- und Raibler-Schichten in den Nordtiroler und bayerischen Alpen.1
Each of the 38 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
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No picture of Omphalophyllia 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 Omphalophyllia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Omphalophyllia 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 itConophyllidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Laube 1865