Retiophyllia tolminensis
No picture of Retiophyllia tolminensis 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 Retiophyllia tolminensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 215.38 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Retiophyllia tolminensis 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Retiophyllia tolminensis 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 tolminensis and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Retiophyllia tolminensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Alpinophragmium1 site
- Astraeomorpha pratzi1 site
- Atrochaetetes1 site
- Blastochaetetes1 site
- Disjectopora1 site
- Duostomina1 site
- Endostoma1 site
- Galeanella1 site
- Involutina1 site
- Margarophyllia capitata1 site
- Margarophyllia crenata1 site
- Margarosmilia zieteni1 site
- Mehliella1 site
- Pamirochaetetes1 site
- Pamiroseris zitteli1 site
- Paradeningeria alpina1 site
- Precorynella pyriformis1 site
- Stromatomorpha1 site
- Thamnasteriamorpha rakoveci1 site
- Volzeia badiotica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Retiophyllia tolminensis, 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- Early Norian (Triassic) corals from the Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria, and the intra-Norian faunal turnover1
- Upper Carnian reef limestone in clastic beds at Perbla near Tolmin (NW Yugoslavia)1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Retiophyllia tolminensis 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 Retiophyllia tolminensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Retiophyllia tolminensis 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 itRetiophyllia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Turnsek et al. 1987