Phyllodermia
Searched as Phyllodermia coronata obliqua. The Paleobiology Database treats Phyllodermia as the accepted name.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcrochordoniinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lithistida
Time the record covers
At most 8.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 113.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Phyllodermia 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
1 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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.
Phyllodermia and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Phyllodermia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
416 taxa- Siphonia6 sites
- Craterella auricula5 sites
- Eustrobilus callosus5 sites
- Heterostinia obliqua5 sites
- Homalodoriana tuberosa5 sites
- Jereica polystoma5 sites
- Pachinion scriptum5 sites
- Amphithelion cupula4 sites
- Astrocladia subramosa4 sites
- Aulaxinia ventricosa4 sites
- Aulosoma radiciformis4 sites
- Coscinostoma fragilis4 sites
- Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri4 sites
- Homalodoriana ficus4 sites
- Leiochonia cryptoporosa4 sites
- Phymatella bulbosa4 sites
- Scytalia terebrata4 sites
- Seliscothon4 sites
- Seliscothon mantelli4 sites
- Siphonia (Siphonia) pyriformis4 sites
- Verruculina seriatopora4 sites
- Verruculina tenuis4 sites
- Aphrocallistes alveolites3 sites
- Aulaxinia sulcifera3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Phyllodermia, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content1
Picture of Phyllodermia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Phyllodermia 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 itAcrochordoniinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schrammen 1924