Symphyllia

Symphyllia

Jenny Huang from Taipei · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LobophylliidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
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 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 69 occurrencesOligocene — about 3 of 69 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 69 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 69 occurrencesPleistocene — about 46 of 69 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 42 occurrences27.3 Mya11.7 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

69 occurrences of Symphyllia on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

69 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

12 formations

Sobe — 26.39°N, 127.73°ECastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°EGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°ERiukiu Limestone — 24.45°N, 123.00°ERiukiu Limestone — 24.05°N, 123.75°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.25°S, 110.67°EUpper Kalibeng — 8.00°S, 114.00°ENaha — 26.12°N, 127.70°ESalayar — 5.90°S, 120.50°EDarkhunish — 26.53°N, 57.58°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°ESondé — 8.00°S, 114.00°ENabire — 3.60°S, 135.52°EAldabra Limestone — 9.42°S, 46.45°E

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The named rock units Symphyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Symphyllia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Symphyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

350 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Symphyllia, 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

28 references

Each of the 69 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. 16 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.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Symphyllia

Credit
Jenny Huang from Taipei
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Symphyllia 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 itLobophylliidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848