Placophyllia

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlacophylliidaePBDB
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 155 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 78 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 78 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 78 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 55 of 78 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 16 of 78 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 78 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 78 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 78 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 78 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences199–193 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences193–187 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences187–182 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences176–170 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–158 Mya — about 1 occurrence158–152 Mya — about 25 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 17 occurrences147–141 Mya — about 12 occurrences141–135 Mya — about 5 occurrences135–129 Mya — about 3 occurrences129–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–118 Mya — about 3 occurrences118–112 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences112–106 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–83 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences83–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–71 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences42–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences192.9 Mya37.71 Mya205 Mya31 Mya

78 occurrences of Placophyllia on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

78 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

21 formations

Stramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EStramberk Limestone — 49.52°N, 17.97°EMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°ESlivnitsa — 42.77°N, 22.75°EAlcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°WVallcarga — 42.25°N, 0.97°EBetlis — 47.24°N, 9.37°EAlikper — 35.47°N, 61.72°ECerro de Oro — 29.75°N, 110.67°WEspinazo del Diablo — 29.20°N, 109.50°WStreiteck — 47.50°N, 11.88°EMagyaregregy Conglomerate — 46.17°N, 18.25°EStramberk — 49.58°N, 18.12°EZallah — 30.32°N, 13.32°ESao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°WCabeca — 37.13°N, 7.85°WErnstbrunn — 48.87°N, 16.67°EOehrli — 47.25°N, 9.37°EOehrli — 47.38°N, 9.73°EEllipsactinia Limestones — 41.83°N, 13.97°ESchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°EGurumdy — 37.86°N, 73.12°E

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The named rock units Placophyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 44 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Placophyllia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Placophyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

942 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Placophyllia, 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

39 references

Each of the 78 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. 27 further references are not listed. 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Placophyllia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPlacophylliidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. D'Orbigny 1849