Stylina lortphillipsi

No picture of Stylina lortphillipsi 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 Stylina lortphillipsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StylinaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Stylinidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Stylinidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 98 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 6 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 4 of 6 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 6 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 6 occurrences168–163 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154.8 Mya56 Mya168 Mya31 Mya

6 occurrences of Stylina lortphillipsi on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

6 occurrences

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

Bihen Limestone — 10.25°N, 45.12°EBihen Limestone — 10.23°N, 45.47°EBihen Limestone — 11.02°N, 48.97°EBihen Limestone — 10.15°N, 45.10°ESa Wer — 10.16°N, 43.06°E

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The named rock units Stylina lortphillipsi 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.

Stylina lortphillipsi and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Stylina lortphillipsi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

96 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Stylina lortphillipsi, 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

3 references

Each of the 6 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 Stylina lortphillipsi 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 Stylina lortphillipsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Stylina lortphillipsi was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itStylina through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gregory 1896)