Anthemiphyllia dentata

Uncredited · 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
- AnthemiphylliaPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivorePBDB, for Anthemiphyllia
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, solitary, clonalPBDB, for Anthemiphyllia
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Anthemiphyllia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthemiphyllia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Anthemiphyllia
Time the record covers
At most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Anthemiphyllia dentata on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene17%
- Pleistocene83%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Anthemiphyllia dentata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Anthemiphyllia dentata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Anthemiphyllia dentata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Anthemiphyllia dentata, so there is nothing to compare it with.
Entered from
3 references- Scleractinia of the Temperate North Pacific1
- Fossil and recent simple corals from Japan1
- Simple corals from the Sumagui Formation, the Philippine Islands1
Each of the 3 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
Media content1

Picture of Anthemiphyllia dentata
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Anthemiphyllia dentata 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 itAnthemiphyllia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Alcock 1902)