Retiophyllia sellae
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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 5.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 211.18 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
19 occurrences of Retiophyllia sellae 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
19 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Retiophyllia sellae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Retiophyllia sellae and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Retiophyllia sellae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
201 taxa- Astraeomorpha crassisepta11 sites
- Chondrocoenia schafhaeutli10 sites
- Retiophyllia langobardica9 sites
- Pamiroseris rectilamellosa8 sites
- Astraeomorpha confusa5 sites
- Stylophyllopsis lindstroemi5 sites
- Retiophyllia clathrata4 sites
- Retiophyllia defilippi3 sites
- Anatina zannoni2 sites
- Atreta intusstriata2 sites
- Bactryllium striolatum2 sites
- Cardium2 sites
- Echinoidea2 sites
- Gervillia inflata2 sites
- Lepiconus gastaldii2 sites
- Mytilus psilonoti2 sites
- Solenopora2 sites
- Stylophyllopsis rudis2 sites
- Stylophyllum2 sites
- Stylophyllum paradoxum2 sites
- Stylophyllum pygmaeum2 sites
- Actinostreon gregarea1 site
- Actinostreon marshi1 site
- Agathammina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Retiophyllia sellae, 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
7 references- I Coralli del Calcare di Zu (Triassico Superiore) della Lombardia (Italia)10
- Upper Triassic reef coral fauna in the Renacuo area, northern Tibet, and its implications for palaeobiogeography2
- I Coralli Calcare di Zu (Triassico Superiore) della Lombardia (Italia). Nuove Segnalazioni2
- Microfacies and cyclic sedimentation of the Upper Triassic (Rhaetian) Calcare di Zu (Southern Alps)2
- Mesozoic corals of Slovenia1
- A New Triassic scleractinian coral from the High Tatra Mountains (Western Carpathians, Czecho-Slovakia)1
- Triassic Reefs in Slovenia1
Each of the 19 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 sellae 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 sellae, 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. (Stoppani 1865)