Acanthophyllum heterophyllum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcanthophyllumPBDB
- 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 least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
14 occurrences of Acanthophyllum heterophyllum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
14 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
9 formations
- Vizhay Formation3
- Toshem Formation3
- Torquay Limestone Formation2
- Santa Lucia Formation1
- Hanonet Formation1
- Freilingen Formation1
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The named rock units Acanthophyllum heterophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acanthophyllum heterophyllum and its relatives
DevonianWhere Acanthophyllum heterophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Acanthophyllum filiforme1 site
- Argutastrea briceae1 site
- Aristiphyllum luetti1 site
- Aulacophyllum1 site
- Breviphrentis1 site
- Cabrieroceras crispiformis1 site
- Calceola sandalina1 site
- Cayugaea1 site
- Ceratophyllum1 site
- Cystiphylloides1 site
- Heliolites1 site
- Iowaphyllum crassozonalum1 site
- Metriophyllum1 site
- Moravophyllum ptenophylloides1 site
- Papiliophyllum1 site
- Phillipsastrea sobolewi1 site
- Plicathyris1 site
- Polygnathus1 site
- Polygnathus linguiformis aff. klapperi1 site
- Polygnathus linguiformis linguiformis1 site
- Scutellum1 site
- Stringophyllum1 site
- Stromatoporoidea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Acanthophyllum heterophyllum, 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
7 references- Stratigrafiya [Stratigraphy]7
- Facies variations in the Devonian limestones of eastern South Devon2
- Givetian rugose corals from the Zemmour in Mauritania1
- Stratigraphie, Fazies und Tabulaten-Fauna des oberen Eifelium (Mittel-Devon) der Dollendorfer Mulde/Eifel (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge)1
- The Eifelian-Givetian boundary and Struve's Middle Devonian Great Gap in the Couvin area (Ardennes, southern Belgium)1
- Devonian reef types in the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain) and their faunal composition1
- Rugose corals of the Lower-Middle and Middle-Upper Devonian boundary beds of the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain)1
Each of the 14 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 Acanthophyllum heterophyllum 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 Acanthophyllum heterophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acanthophyllum heterophyllum 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 itAcanthophyllum through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)