Caryophylliidae

The Caryophylliidae are a family of stony corals found from the tropics to temperate seas, and from shallow to very deep water.

Caryophylliidae

Fernando Herranz Martín · CC BY-SA 2.5 es · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
CaryophylliicaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB
Life habit
low-level epifaunal, solitary, clonalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 1732 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 23 of 1732 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 17 of 1732 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 27 of 1732 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 84 of 1732 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 227 of 1732 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 183 of 1732 occurrencesEocene — about 256 of 1732 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 118 of 1732 occurrencesMiocene — about 496 of 1732 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 143 of 1732 occurrencesPleistocene — about 157 of 1732 occurrences210–203 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences203–196 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences196–189 Mya — about 1 occurrence189–182 Mya — about 16 occurrences182–175 Mya — about 6 occurrences175–168 Mya — about 13 occurrences168–161 Mya — about 4 occurrences161–154 Mya — about 6 occurrences154–147 Mya — about 9 occurrences147–140 Mya — about 12 occurrences140–133 Mya — about 1 occurrence133–126 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences126–119 Mya — about 4 occurrences119–112 Mya — about 11 occurrences112–105 Mya — about 46 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 38 occurrences98–91 Mya — about 38 occurrences91–84 Mya — about 24 occurrences84–77 Mya — about 25 occurrences77–70 Mya — about 55 occurrences70–63 Mya — about 173 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 77 occurrences56–49 Mya — about 45 occurrences49–42 Mya — about 59 occurrences42–35 Mya — about 135 occurrences35–28 Mya — about 40 occurrences28–21 Mya — about 110 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 193 occurrences14–7.0 Mya — about 224 occurrences7.0–0 Mya — about 365 occurrences201.4 Mya129 ka210 Mya0 Mya

1,732 occurrences of Caryophylliidae 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

1,732 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

253 formations

Termofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°EGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.08°WGurabo — 19.37°N, 70.76°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 70.80°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WGurabo — 19.55°N, 71.28°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.47°N, 70.97°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WWills Point — 30.27°N, 97.73°WWills Point — 30.08°N, 97.50°WWills Point — 30.59°N, 97.30°WWills Point — 31.74°N, 96.55°WWills Point — 30.23°N, 97.52°WWills Point — 29.89°N, 97.67°WWills Point — 28.71°N, 100.50°WWills Point — 30.11°N, 97.32°WWills Point — 30.53°N, 97.25°WWills Point — 28.83°N, 100.18°WWills Point — 29.75°N, 97.70°WWills Point — 30.27°N, 97.43°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 31.93°N, 92.64°WKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WKincaid — 30.80°N, 96.95°WKincaid — 31.67°N, 96.47°WKincaid — 32.44°N, 96.23°WKincaid — 30.13°N, 97.47°WKincaid — 30.46°N, 97.39°WKincaid — 31.05°N, 96.83°WKincaid — 29.77°N, 97.68°WKincaid — 30.18°N, 97.48°WKincaid — 30.43°N, 97.33°WKincaid — 32.47°N, 96.15°WLlajas — 34.33°N, 118.71°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.65°WMoin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.18°WCercado — 19.48°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.07°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WDakhla — 25.33°N, 30.58°EOld Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°WRio Gurabo — 19.45°N, 71.17°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.46°N, 88.79°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 86.78°WPrairie Bluff — 32.13°N, 87.40°WGrand Bay — 12.50°N, 61.42°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.83°N, 88.22°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WLisbon — 31.97°N, 88.82°WLisbon — 32.50°N, 93.03°WLisbon — 32.20°N, 92.82°WLisbon — 32.10°N, 88.85°WSicilian — 38.15°N, 15.65°EMancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 36.04°N, 111.04°WOpalinuston — 47.43°N, 8.15°EOpalinuston — 47.68°N, 8.52°EPucangan — 7.23°S, 112.75°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.96°N, 6.69°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.04°N, 6.62°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.01°N, 6.35°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.10°N, 6.75°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.05°N, 6.52°EZongshan — 28.30°N, 88.53°EZongshan — 27.48°N, 88.90°EEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.58°WEdwards Limestone — 31.13°N, 105.48°WEdwards Limestone — 30.25°N, 97.77°WEdwards Limestone — 30.07°N, 99.60°WMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°E

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The named rock units Caryophylliidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 229 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 846 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Caryophylliidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Caryophylliidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,960 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 527 sites for Caryophylliidae, 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

330 references

Each of the 1,732 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. 318 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 Caryophylliidae

Credit
Fernando Herranz Martín
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5 es
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

Licence
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. Gray 1847