Pexiphyllum

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhacellophyllinaePBDB
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 16 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 6 of 6 occurrencesDevonian388–388 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 1 occurrence383–382 Mya — about 1 occurrence382–382 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences381–381 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences379–379 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences378–378 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences377–377 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences376–376 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences388.4 Mya371.6 Mya

6 occurrences of Pexiphyllum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

3 formations

Portilla — 43.00°N, 6.17°WPortilla — 42.83°N, 5.30°WBrilon Massenkalk — 51.45°N, 8.63°EBrilon Massenkalk — 51.42°N, 8.58°EKellergrat Reef Limestone — 46.62°N, 12.88°E

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The named rock units Pexiphyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pexiphyllum and its relatives

Devonian

Where Pexiphyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Pexiphyllum, so there is nothing to compare it with.

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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Pexiphyllum 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPhacellophyllinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walther 1928