Yuanophyllum kansuense
No picture of Yuanophyllum kansuense 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 Yuanophyllum kansuense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- YuanophyllumPBDB
- 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 24 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Yuanophyllum kansuense 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
5 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Yuanophyllum kansuense 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.
Yuanophyllum kansuense and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Yuanophyllum kansuense and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
4 taxa- Bothrophyllum1 site
- Composita1 site
- Punctospirifer1 site
- Zaphrentites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Yuanophyllum kansuense, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
4 references- Upper Viséan coral biostrome in a volcanic-sedimentary setting from the Eastern Tianshan, Northwest China2
- Late Visean to Early Serpukhovian rugose corals from the Yashui Section, Guizhou, South China1
- Lower Carboniferous corals from the southwestern margin of the Tarim Basin, NW China1
- Hornförmige Einzelkorallen (Rugosa) aus dem Unterkarbon von Süd-China [Cornute solitary corals (Rugosa) from the Lower Carboniferous of South China]1
Each of the 5 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 Yuanophyllum kansuense 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 Yuanophyllum kansuense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Yuanophyllum kansuense 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itYuanophyllum through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yu 1931