Alaiophyllum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CharactophyllidaePBDB
- 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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 368.5 Mya.
13 occurrences of Alaiophyllum 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
13 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
7 formations
- Vilemovice Limestone Formation4
- Macocha Formation4
- Kellergrat Reef Limestone Formation1
- Wallersheim Formation1
- Cu Bai Formation1
- Kee Scarp Formation1
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The named rock units Alaiophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Alaiophyllum and its relatives
DevonianWhere Alaiophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Amphipora moravica6 sites
- Stachyodes6 sites
- Stromatopora6 sites
- Disphyllum5 sites
- Natalophyllum5 sites
- Scoliopora denticulata5 sites
- Atelodictyon4 sites
- Multiseptida4 sites
- Scoliopora denticulata vassinoensis4 sites
- Cribrosphaeroides3 sites
- Parathurammina3 sites
- Rugosa3 sites
- Stromatoporella3 sites
- Syringostroma3 sites
- Tabulophyllum3 sites
- Tikhinella3 sites
- Vicinesphaera3 sites
- Amphipora2 sites
- Geinitzinidae2 sites
- Labechiidae2 sites
- Palmatolepis2 sites
- Palmatolepis minuta minuta2 sites
- Paramphipora2 sites
- Paratikhinella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Alaiophyllum, 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
7 references- Searching for extinction/recovery gradients: the Frasnian-Fammennian interval, Mokra section, Moravia, central Europe4
- A lower Famennian fauna from the top of the reefoid limestones of Mokra (Moravia, Czechoslovakia)4
- Untersuchungen an rugosen Korallen aus dem Bereich der Mittel-Devon/Ober-Devon-Grenze des Rheinischen Schiefergebirges [Studies on rugose corals from Middle/Upper Devonian boundary beds of the Rheinisches Schiefergebirge]1
- Mikrofazies, Stratigraphie und Paläogeographie des Zentralkarnischen Hauptkammes zwischen Seewarte und Cellon [Microfacies, stratigraphy and paleogeography of the central Carnic Alps between Seewarte and Cellon, Austria]1
- Tong-Dzuy et al., 19881
- Phénomènes récifaux dans le Dévonien d'Afghanistan (Montagnes Centrales) - Analyse et systématique des Stromatopores1
- Alaiophyllum mackenziense sp. nov., a Devonian tetracoral from Canada1
Each of the 13 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 Alaiophyllum 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 Alaiophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Alaiophyllum 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 itCharactophyllidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goryanov 1961