Balanophyllia

Balanophyllia is a genus of solitary corals in the order of stony corals.

Balanophyllia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DendrophylliidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 10 of 360 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 36 of 360 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 89 of 360 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 41 of 360 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 123 of 360 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 15 of 360 occurrencesPleistocene — about 46 of 360 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 8 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 9 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 8 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 15 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 11 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 11 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 9 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 8 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 10 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 28 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 7 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 6 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 6 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 11 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 18 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 20 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 29 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 38 occurrences12–8.7 Mya — about 19 occurrences8.7–5.8 Mya — about 12 occurrences5.8–2.9 Mya — about 13 occurrences2.9–0 Mya — about 49 occurrences83.6 Mya129 ka87 Mya0 Mya

360 occurrences of Balanophyllia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

360 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

76 formations

Termofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°EMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.35°N, 86.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 87.75°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.91°N, 87.74°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.36°N, 88.70°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.55°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.87°N, 88.32°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.83°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 32.08°N, 88.22°WTuscahoma — 31.33°N, 85.58°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WTallahatta — 31.87°N, 88.32°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.55°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WNanafalia — 31.82°N, 86.62°WNanafalia — 32.25°N, 87.77°WNanafalia — 31.65°N, 86.70°WNanafalia — 32.13°N, 88.02°WBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°WWaihao — 44.16°S, 171.10°ECapay — 38.77°N, 122.20°WCapay — 39.20°N, 121.82°WCapay — 38.54°N, 122.05°WKincaid — 31.67°N, 96.47°WKincaid — 30.13°N, 97.47°WKincaid — 31.79°N, 96.46°WRed Bluff — 31.80°N, 88.70°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WPorters Creek — 31.99°N, 87.29°WPorters Creek — 31.93°N, 87.02°WPorters Creek — 31.97°N, 87.20°WPirabas — 0.77°S, 47.18°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WOiching — 47.92°N, 13.00°ESantee Limestone — 33.33°N, 79.69°WSantee Limestone — 32.97°N, 80.08°WPucangan — 7.23°S, 112.75°ERudeis — 27.30°N, 33.58°ERudeis — 27.62°N, 33.37°EFalaises de Fresco — 5.08°N, 5.62°WHatchetigbee — 31.36°N, 86.09°WPamunkey — 38.38°N, 77.30°WPamunkey — 37.55°N, 76.97°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.04°W

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The named rock units Balanophyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 52 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 175 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Balanophyllia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Balanophyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,060 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 155 sites for Balanophyllia, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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 360 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 Balanophyllia

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Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wood 1844