Amplexus coralloides

Amplexus coralloides

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmplexusPBDB
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 86 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 22 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 19 of 22 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 22 occurrencesPermian361–357 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 2 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 2 occurrences346–343 Mya — about 4 occurrences343–339 Mya — about 4 occurrences339–336 Mya — about 5 occurrences336–332 Mya — about 1 occurrence332–328 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences296–292 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences292–288 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences288–285 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences285–281 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences281–277 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences263–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–256 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences256–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences346.7 Mya259.857 Mya361 Mya252 Mya

22 occurrences of Amplexus coralloides 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

22 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

12 formations

Feltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WFeltrim — 53.62°N, 6.92°WCarboniferous Limestone — 52.83°N, 2.00°WCarboniferous Limestone — 53.08°N, 1.83°WCarboniferous Limestone — 53.08°N, 1.87°WWeaver Beds — 52.80°N, 2.10°WMoel Hiraddug Limestone — 53.32°N, 3.42°WCauldon Low Limestone — 53.03°N, 1.88°WWaterhouses Limestone — 53.03°N, 1.87°WBlack Rock — 51.33°N, 2.74°WAtahoc — 9.46°S, 124.60°ECracoe Limestone — 54.05°N, 2.02°WMiddle Limestone Va Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WLimerick Limestone — 52.65°N, 8.95°WSlane Castle — 53.62°N, 6.88°W

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The named rock units Amplexus coralloides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amplexus coralloides and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Amplexus coralloides and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

424 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Amplexus coralloides, 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

15 references

Each of the 22 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. 3 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 Amplexus coralloides

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Amplexus coralloides 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.

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What may have been alongside itAmplexus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sowerby 1814