Pleurophyllia trichotoma

Pleurophyllia trichotoma

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PleurophylliaPBDB
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 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 110.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 13 of 15 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 15 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 15 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–155 Mya — about 3 occurrences155–153 Mya — about 3 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence151–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–143 Mya — about 2 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154.8 Mya110.1 Mya159 Mya99 Mya

15 occurrences of Pleurophyllia trichotoma 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

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

5 formations

Stramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EStramberk Limestone — 49.52°N, 17.97°EStramberk Limestone — 49.52°N, 17.80°EEspinazo del Diablo — 29.20°N, 109.50°WCabeca — 37.12°N, 8.18°WSao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°WPeral — 37.15°N, 7.60°W

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The named rock units Pleurophyllia trichotoma 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.

Pleurophyllia trichotoma and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Pleurophyllia trichotoma and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

283 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Pleurophyllia trichotoma, 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

9 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 content1

Picture of Pleurophyllia trichotoma

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pleurophyllia trichotoma 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 itPleurophyllia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Fromentel 1856