Smithiphyllum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KyphophyllinaePBDB
- 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 least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 358.86 Mya.
102 occurrences of Smithiphyllum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
102 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
26 formations
- Mount Hawk Formation12
- Southesk Formation11
- Redknife Formation9
- Twin Falls Formation8
- Imperial Formation8
- Kakisa Formation5
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The named rock units Smithiphyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Smithiphyllum and its relatives
DevonianWhere Smithiphyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
107 taxa- Phillipsastrea15 sites
- Disphyllum11 sites
- Hexagonaria11 sites
- Thamnophyllum10 sites
- Peneckiella9 sites
- Macgeea8 sites
- Tabulophyllum8 sites
- Hunanophrentis7 sites
- Pantophyllum7 sites
- Piceaphyllum7 sites
- Mictophyllum6 sites
- Frechastraea5 sites
- Chuanbeiphyllum4 sites
- Temnophyllum4 sites
- Alveolites3 sites
- Bouvierphyllum altum3 sites
- Bouvierphyllum maclareni3 sites
- Pachyphyllum3 sites
- Plectophyllum kindlei3 sites
- Thamnopora3 sites
- Brachiopoda2 sites
- Charactophyllum2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Smithicyathus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Smithiphyllum, 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
17 references- Frasnian rugose corals of western Canada, part 2: The genus Smithiphyllum45
- The distribution of rugose corals in Frasnian outcrop sequences of North America30
- An example of reef development in the Middle Devonian (Candás Fm., Givetian) in the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain)4
- Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian corals of Alaska4
- A Late Devonian (Frasnian) Coral-Bafflestone Reef at Houshan in Guilin, South China3
- Corals and conodonts from the Late Devonian Mostyn Vale Formation, Keepit, New South Wales3
- Sequence stratigraphy of a Late Devonian ramp-situated reef system in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin: dynamic responses to sea-level change and regressive reef development2
- Rugose corals from the Devonian Kowala Formation of the Holy Cross Mountains2
- Middle and Upper Devonian rugose corals from the Canning Basin, Western Australia1
- Die Fossilführung des Mitteldevons im Raum Attendorn-Olpe (West-Sauerland; Rechtsrheinisches Schiefergebirge) [Middle Devonian fossils of the Attendorn-Olpe area (western Sauerland; Rhenish Massif]1
- Frasnian (Upper Devonian) rugose corals from the Lime Creek and Shell Rock Formations of Iowa1
- Middle Devonian rugose coral faunas in northeastern British Columbia and District of Mackenzie, western Canada1
Each of the 102 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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.
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No picture of Smithiphyllum 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 Smithiphyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Smithiphyllum 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 itKyphophyllinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Birenheide 1962