Phyllangia

Phyllangia

Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012) · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhizangiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhizangiidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Rhizangiidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rhizangiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rhizangiidae

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 774 ka.

Eocene — about 1 of 15 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 15 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 15 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 15 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 15 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37.71 Mya3.6 Mya49 Mya0 Mya

15 occurrences of Phyllangia on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

15 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

6 formations

Termofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°ECaloosahatchee — 26.73°N, 81.48°WGornji Grad — 46.28°N, 14.25°EJackson Bluff — 30.38°N, 84.63°WDuplin — 30.38°N, 84.63°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.43°W

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The named rock units Phyllangia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phyllangia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Phyllangia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

235 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Phyllangia, 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

10 references

Each of the 15 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 content2

Picture of Phyllangia

Credit
Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012)
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itRhizangiidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848