Aulacophyllum

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HalliinaePBDB
- 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 37 million years on record.
The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 372.15 Mya.
14 occurrences of Aulacophyllum 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 occurrencesThese 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
- Jeffersonville Limestone Formation4
- Badragha Formation2
- Santa Lucia Formation1
- Stooping River Formation1
- Ban Pap Formation · Ban Pap Group1
- Hidden Valley Dolomite Formation1
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The named rock units Aulacophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Aulacophyllum and its relatives
DevonianWhere Aulacophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
172 taxa- Favosites5 sites
- Atrypa reticularis3 sites
- Blothrophyllum3 sites
- Cladopora3 sites
- Eridophyllum3 sites
- Pleurodictyum3 sites
- Rhipidomella3 sites
- Alveolites2 sites
- Centronella2 sites
- Cephalopoda2 sites
- Chonophyllum2 sites
- Cladopora roemeri2 sites
- Cystiphylloides2 sites
- Eldredgeops rana2 sites
- Emmonsia2 sites
- Fimbrispirifer2 sites
- Heliophyllum2 sites
- Heterophrentis2 sites
- Megastrophia2 sites
- Odontophyllum2 sites
- Pentagonia2 sites
- Siphonophrentis2 sites
- Spirifer2 sites
- Syringopora perelegans2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Aulacophyllum, 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
9 references- Silurian and Devonian Corals of the Falls of the Ohio4
- Phénomènes récifaux dans le Dévonien d'Afghanistan (Montagnes Centrales) - Analyse et systématique des Stromatopores2
- A Faunal Study of the Beechwood Limestone (Middle Devonian); Speed, Indiana2
- Tong-Dzuy et al., 19881
- Rugose corals of the Lower-Middle and Middle-Upper Devonian boundary beds of the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain)1
- Devonian stratigraphy of the Hudson Platform. Part I: stratigraphy and economic geology1
- Silurian, Devonian, and Mississippian Formations of the Funeral Mountains in the Ryan Quadrangle, Death Valley Region, California1
- Stratigraphic distribution of Givetian and Upper Devonian rugose corals in central Kazakhstan1
- The Devonian of California1
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
Media content2

Picture of Aulacophyllum
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Laser scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Aulacophyllum sulcatum · iu:iupc:2580
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 itHalliinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850