Aphyllum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TryplasmatinaePBDB
- 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 55 million years on record.
The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
45 occurrences of Aphyllum on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
45 occurrences- Ordovician4%
- Silurian72%
- Devonian24%
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
23 formations
- Silverdale Formation3
- Zvenigorod suite Formation2
- Mosquito Point Formation2
- Baruun-Urt Formation2
- Burdekin Formation · Fanning River Group2
- Kulamat Formation2
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The named rock units Aphyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Aphyllum and its relatives
SilurianWhere Aphyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
329 taxa- Favosites17 sites
- Entelophyllum8 sites
- Tryplasma8 sites
- Syringopora7 sites
- Atrypa6 sites
- Halysites6 sites
- Howellella6 sites
- Bryozoa5 sites
- Heliolites5 sites
- Isorthis5 sites
- Mesofavosites5 sites
- Brachiopoda4 sites
- Catenipora4 sites
- Mucophyllum4 sites
- Paleofavosites4 sites
- Phaulactis4 sites
- Salopina4 sites
- Atrypa reticularis3 sites
- Auloporidae3 sites
- Brachyelasma3 sites
- Cladopora3 sites
- Conchidium3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Crotalocrinites3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Aphyllum, 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
23 references- Silurian and Early Devonian benthic communities of the Ural-Tien Shan region7
- Australian communities4
- Stromatoporaty i biostratigrafiya nizhnego paleozoya Mongolii [Stromatoporata and biostratigraphy of the Lower Paleozoic of Mongolia]4
- Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian corals of Alaska4
- The principal Pridolian and Lochkovian rugose coral assemblages or communities in eastern North America3
- Animal and plant communities of Podolia2
- Succession of coral associations during a Givetian transgressive-regressive cycle in Queensland2
- Lower and Middle Devonian marine deposits of the Soviet arctic and the correlation with arctic Canada2
- Tyazheva et al., 19762
- Znacheniye rugoz dlya stratigrafii siluriyskikh otlozheniy Pripolyarnogo Urala i gryady Chernysheva [Stratigraphy significance of rugose corals from Silurian deposits of the polar Urals and the Chernysheva ridge]2
- Global reef recovery after the end-Ordovician extinction: evidence from late Aeronian coral–stromatoporoid reefs in South China1
- Paleoecological associations of middle Llandovery (Silurian) corals from Huaying Mountain, eastern Sichuan Province1
Each of the 45 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. 11 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
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No picture of Aphyllum 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 Aphyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aphyllum 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 itTryplasmatinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Soshkina 1937