Symplectophyllum
No picture of Symplectophyllum 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 Symplectophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AphrophyllidaePBDB
- 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 29 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 330.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Symplectophyllum 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
7 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Symplectophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Symplectophyllum and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Symplectophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Amygdalophyllum2 sites
- Aphrophyllum2 sites
- Merlewoodia2 sites
- Orionastraea2 sites
- Palaeacis cuneiformis2 sites
- Siphonodendron2 sites
- ? Delepinia sp.1 site
- Acaciapora1 site
- Alinkioduncanella1 site
- Amplexizaphrentis1 site
- Amplexocarina <sp. A>1 site
- Amplexocarina <sp. B>1 site
- Amplexocarina cf. pumila1 site
- Amplexocarina pumila n. sp.1 site
- Amplexus1 site
- Aphrophyllidae1 site
- Auloporida1 site
- Carcinophyllum1 site
- Claviphyllum1 site
- Coenaphrodia1 site
- Gnathodus texanus1 site
- Hapsiphyllidae1 site
- Kabakovitchiella1 site
- Koninckopora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Symplectophyllum, 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- Lower Carboniferous coral fauna of the Rockhampton Group, east-central Queensland5
- The succession of Early Carboniferous coral faunas in eastern Australia and China2
Each of the 7 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Symplectophyllum 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 Symplectophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Symplectophyllum 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 itAphrophyllidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hill 1934