Retiophyllia frechi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RetiophylliaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Reimaniphylliidae
- 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 9.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 215.38 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
10 occurrences of Retiophyllia frechi on record, most of them in the Late 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
10 occurrences- Late 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
5 formations
- Zlambach Formation4
- Chambara Formation · Pucara Group2
- Fatra Formation1
- Cornwallis Formation1
- Nayband Formation1
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The named rock units Retiophyllia frechi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Retiophyllia frechi and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Retiophyllia frechi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
127 taxa- Distichophyllia norica7 sites
- Astraeomorpha crassisepta6 sites
- Retiophyllia norica6 sites
- Astraeomorpha confusa5 sites
- Chondrocoenia schafhaeutli5 sites
- Gablonzeria profunda5 sites
- Kuhnastraea decussata5 sites
- Margarosmilia charlyana5 sites
- Pamiroseris rectilamellosa5 sites
- Procyclolites triadicus5 sites
- Retiophyllia oppeli4 sites
- Retiophyllia robusta4 sites
- Stylophyllopsis polyactis4 sites
- Chondrocoenia ohmanni3 sites
- Coccophyllum sturi3 sites
- Crassistella juvavica3 sites
- Distichomeandra minor3 sites
- Gigantostylis epigonus3 sites
- Kuhnastraea incrassata3 sites
- Palaeastraea grandissima3 sites
- Phacelostylophyllum zitteli3 sites
- Retiophyllia caespitosa3 sites
- Stylophyllopsis rudis3 sites
- Ampakabastraea cowichanensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Retiophyllia frechi, 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
6 references- Triassic Corals of the Zlambach Beds, Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria4
- Upper Triassic corals from Peru2
- Upper Triassic reef corals from the Sambosan Accretionary Complex, Kyushu, Japan1
- Norian to Rhaetian scleractinian corals in the Ferdows patch reef (Nayband Formation, east central Iran)1
- Systematic analysis of upper triassic silicified scleractinian corals from Wrangellia and the Alexander Terrane, Alaska and British Columbia1
- Rhaetian Scleractinian Corals in the Western Carpathians1
Each of the 10 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 content0
No picture of Retiophyllia frechi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Retiophyllia frechi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itRetiophyllia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roniewicz 1989