Bodophyllum

Tonarová, Petra · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StreptelasmatidaePBDB
- 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 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 438.6 Mya.
26 occurrences of Bodophyllum on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
26 occurrences- Ordovician51%
- Silurian49%
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
10 formations
- Solvik Formation2
- Ely Springs Formation2
- Fish Haven Dolostone Formation1
- Vaureal Formation1
- White Head Formation1
- Boda Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Bodophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bodophyllum and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Bodophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
200 taxa- Grewingkia6 sites
- Lobocorallium5 sites
- Streptelasma4 sites
- Bighornia3 sites
- Deiracorallium3 sites
- Salvadorea selecta3 sites
- Streptelasma primum3 sites
- Tryplasma3 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Clorilamnulella undata2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Dicoelosia osloensis2 sites
- Dolerorthis sowerbyiana2 sites
- Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) duplicata2 sites
- Isbergia planifrons2 sites
- Leangella scissa2 sites
- Levenea llandoveriana2 sites
- Meifodia2 sites
- Rugosa2 sites
- Stenopareia2 sites
- Streptelasma affine2 sites
- Trilobita2 sites
- Achatella schmidti1 site
- Acidaspis bispinosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Bodophyllum, 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
8 references- Upper Ordovician - Lower Silurian strata and biota from offshore South Norway11
- Late Ordovician solitary rugose corals of the Stony Mountain Formation, southern Manitoba, and its equivalents5
- Upper Ordovician Streptelasmatid Corals from Scandinavia4
- Silurian communities of the Oslo Region, Norway2
- Earliest symbiotic rugosans in cystoporate bryozoan Ceramopora intercellata Bassler, 1911 from Late Ordovician of Estonia (Baltica)1
- Rugose Corals of the Late Ordovician to Earliest Silurian Vauréal, Ellis Bay and Becscie Formations, Anticosti Island, Québec1
- Microborings and growth in Late Ordovician halysitids and other corals1
- A new silicified coral from the Upper Ordovician of the Oslo Region1
Each of the 26 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 content1

Picture of Bodophyllum
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Tonarová, Petra
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Bodophyllum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itStreptelasmatidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Neuman 1969