Trachyphyllia

Trachyphyllia

Karelj · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
MerulinidaePBDB
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 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 3 of 101 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 17 of 101 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 101 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 38 of 101 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 21 of 101 occurrencesPleistocene — about 14 of 101 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–55 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 5 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 10 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 17 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences56 Mya129 ka63 Mya0 Mya

101 occurrences of Trachyphyllia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

101 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

40 formations

Old Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°WTamana — 10.46°N, 61.24°WTamana — 10.42°N, 61.13°WTamiami — 26.14°N, 81.77°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WLa Quinta — 17.18°N, 92.63°WLa Quinta — 17.08°N, 92.45°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.18°WMoneague — 18.40°N, 77.37°WMoneague — 17.95°N, 77.38°WBateque — 26.67°N, 112.94°WBateque — 26.75°N, 113.00°WAnguilla — 18.23°N, 63.07°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WGatuncillo — 9.18°N, 79.52°WGatuncillo — 9.20°N, 79.55°WRiukiu limestone — 23.00°N, 122.00°ESomerset — 18.22°N, 77.10°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.07°WSan Andres — 12.53°N, 81.70°WIxtaclum Shale — 17.05°N, 92.72°WIxtaclum Shale — 17.02°N, 92.77°WSaidabad Coral Limestone — 29.30°N, 56.18°EMao Adentro — 19.52°N, 70.83°WSables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°ETonasa — 4.42°S, 119.67°EOld Pera — 17.87°N, 76.28°WHope Gate — 18.47°N, 77.40°WSalt Mountain Limestone — 31.43°N, 87.92°WRyukyu Limestone — 24.50°N, 124.26°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°E

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The named rock units Trachyphyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Trachyphyllia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Trachyphyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

892 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Trachyphyllia, 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

45 references

Each of the 101 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. 33 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 Trachyphyllia

Credit
Karelj
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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