Balanophyllia varians

No picture of Balanophyllia varians was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Balanophyllia varians, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BalanophylliaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Balanophyllia
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 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 17 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 17 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 17 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences9.8–8.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.9–8.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.1–7.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.2–6.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.4–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.8–2.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.9–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence23.04 Mya3.6 Mya27.8 Mya2.1 Mya

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

17 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

1 formation

Termofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°E

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The named rock units Balanophyllia varians has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Balanophyllia varians and its relatives

Miocene

Where Balanophyllia varians and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

251 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Balanophyllia varians, 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

11 references

Each of the 17 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 content0

No picture of Balanophyllia varians was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Balanophyllia varians, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Balanophyllia varians 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reuss 1854