Rotiphyllum occidentale
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RotiphyllumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 342.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Rotiphyllum occidentale on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Rotiphyllum occidentale has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rotiphyllum occidentale and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Rotiphyllum occidentale and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Euomphalus2 sites
- Syringopora2 sites
- ? Dielasmoides sp.1 site
- Barrandeophyllum1 site
- Baylea1 site
- Baylea yvanii1 site
- Beecheria1 site
- Bellerophontoidea1 site
- Borestus1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Caninia1 site
- Caninia corniculum1 site
- Caninophyllum sonorense1 site
- Choristites glennfoxi1 site
- Cleiothyridina1 site
- Cleiothyridina glenparkensis1 site
- Composita obesa1 site
- Conocardium1 site
- Crurithyris levicula1 site
- Cyathaxonia cordillerensis1 site
- Cyrtina burlingtonensis1 site
- Cyrtospirifer latior1 site
- Cystelasma invaginatum1 site
- Dielasmoides sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Rotiphyllum occidentale, 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
2 references- Mississippian and Devonian paleontology and stratigraphy, Quartz Spring area Inyo County, California1
- Mississippian fauna in northwestern Sonora, Mexico1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Rotiphyllum occidentale 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 Rotiphyllum occidentale, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rotiphyllum occidentale 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRotiphyllum through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Easton et al. 1958