Pinacophyllum spizzensis
No picture of Pinacophyllum spizzensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Pinacophyllum spizzensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PinacophyllumPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Stylophyllidae
- Life habit
- epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Stylophyllidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stylophyllidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Stylophyllidae
Time the record covers
At least 1.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 239.48 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 237 Mya.
3 occurrences of Pinacophyllum spizzensis on record, most of them in the Middle 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
3 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Pinacophyllum spizzensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pinacophyllum spizzensis and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Pinacophyllum spizzensis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Coryphyllia xiaanensis1 site
- Distichophyllia1 site
- Distichophyllia decora1 site
- Elasmophyllia milchi1 site
- Gablonzeria1 site
- Margarophyllia1 site
- Margarophyllia inculta1 site
- Margarophyllia zhenfengensis1 site
- Neoconophyllia xiaanensis1 site
- Pentasmilia guangxiensis1 site
- Procyathophora furstenbergensis1 site
- Proretiophyllia tianyangensis1 site
- Radiophyllia astylatus1 site
- Radiophyllia stylatus1 site
- Solenopora1 site
- Stylophyllopsis minisculus1 site
- Submargarosmilia beipanjiangensis1 site
- Substuoresia vogelsangi1 site
- Volzeia chagyabensis1 site
- Volzeia degeensis1 site
- Zardinophyllum quinqueseptata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pinacophyllum spizzensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Middle Triassic corals from W. Guangxi and S. Guizhou2
- Middle Triassic corals and sponges from southern Guizhou and eastern Yunnan1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Pinacophyllum spizzensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Pinacophyllum spizzensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pinacophyllum spizzensis 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 itPinacophyllum through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tornquist 1899)