Aulophyllidae

Aulophyllidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AulophyllinaPBDB
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 170 million years on record.

The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Silurian — about 2 of 509 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 10 of 509 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 428 of 509 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 69 of 509 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 509 occurrences442–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences391–384 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences384–378 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences378–371 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences371–365 Mya — about 2 occurrences365–358 Mya — about 9 occurrences358–352 Mya — about 27 occurrences352–345 Mya — about 39 occurrences345–339 Mya — about 52 occurrences339–332 Mya — about 117 occurrences332–326 Mya — about 102 occurrences326–319 Mya — about 51 occurrences319–313 Mya — about 20 occurrences313–306 Mya — about 3 occurrences306–300 Mya — about 13 occurrences300–293 Mya — about 24 occurrences293–287 Mya — about 12 occurrences287–281 Mya — about 3 occurrences281–274 Mya — about 5 occurrences274–268 Mya — about 15 occurrences268–261 Mya — about 8 occurrences261–255 Mya — about 4 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430.6 Mya259.857 Mya442 Mya248 Mya

509 occurrences of Aulophyllidae 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

509 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

140 formations

Idmarrach — 33.53°N, 5.39°WIdmarrach — 33.43°N, 5.22°WYamansu — 41.90°N, 93.77°ETin Mountain — 36.33°N, 116.52°WTin Mountain — 36.54°N, 117.03°WTin Mountain — 36.39°N, 117.43°WTin Mountain — 36.74°N, 117.45°WTin Mountain — 36.76°N, 117.44°WTin Mountain — 36.75°N, 117.48°WBlack Rock Limestone — 51.57°N, 4.33°WWaterhouses Limestone — 53.03°N, 1.87°WWaterhouses Limestone — 52.80°N, 2.10°WIchinotani — 36.00°N, 137.00°EHeshilafu — 37.29°N, 76.25°EHeshilafu — 37.37°N, 75.98°EMcCloud — 40.85°N, 122.26°WMcCloud — 40.85°N, 122.23°WMcCloud — 40.72°N, 122.30°WTirhela — 33.53°N, 5.39°WTirhela — 33.44°N, 5.23°WMoel Hiraddug Limestone — 53.32°N, 3.42°WMoel Hiraddug Limestone — 53.42°N, 3.00°WGrenola Limestone — 38.50°N, 96.35°WGrenola Limestone — 37.10°N, 96.63°WBou-Rifi — 32.90°N, 6.05°WBou-Rifi — 32.92°N, 5.65°WBaird — 40.79°N, 122.30°WBaird — 40.95°N, 122.27°WMurphy Road — 45.01°N, 64.13°WAmsden — 42.87°N, 110.79°WStotler Limestone — 39.14°N, 96.42°WStotler Limestone — 39.07°N, 95.98°WStotler Limestone — 38.78°N, 95.96°WStotler Limestone — 38.20°N, 96.22°WForaker Limestone — 37.35°N, 96.48°WForaker Limestone — 37.09°N, 96.57°WForaker Limestone — 39.85°N, 95.67°WForaker Limestone — 37.82°N, 96.46°WMcCloud Limestone — 40.85°N, 122.26°WTizra — 33.53°N, 5.39°WSecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WBlack Rock — 51.33°N, 2.74°WJanesville Shale — 39.28°N, 96.43°WJanesville Shale — 37.46°N, 96.41°WJanesville Shale — 37.09°N, 96.57°WJanesville Shale — 40.45°N, 95.98°WDoulingshan — 24.45°N, 108.30°EBricklieve Limestone — 54.05°N, 8.37°WBricklieve Limestone — 54.10°N, 8.25°W

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The named rock units Aulophyllidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 116 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 102 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aulophyllidae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Aulophyllidae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,321 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 269 sites for Aulophyllidae, and this reads 240 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

125 references

Each of the 509 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. 113 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 Aulophyllidae

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aulophyllidae 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 itAulophyllina through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dybowski 1873