Cladophyllia ramea

Cladophyllia ramea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CladophylliaPBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
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 most 8.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 157.9 Mya and 149.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 5 of 5 occurrencesLate Jurassic158–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences158.4 Mya148.7 Mya

5 occurrences of Cladophyllia ramea on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

5 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.

Cladophyllia ramea and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Cladophyllia ramea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cladophyllia ramea, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Cladophyllia ramea

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

No 3D scan of Cladophyllia ramea 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 itCladophyllia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koby 1884