Clisiophyllum
Searched as Clisiophyllum multiseptatum rigidum. The Paleobiology Database treats Clisiophyllum as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClisiophyllinaePBDB
- 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 most 17 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 330.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Clisiophyllum on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
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The named rock units Clisiophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Clisiophyllum and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Clisiophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
777 taxa- Syringopora13 sites
- Spirifer12 sites
- Chonetes11 sites
- Dictyoclostus10 sites
- Echinoconchus punctatus9 sites
- Michelinia9 sites
- Angiospirifer bisulcatus8 sites
- Archaediscus8 sites
- Composita8 sites
- Crinoidea8 sites
- Dictyoclostus semireticulatus8 sites
- Dielasma8 sites
- Eomarginifera8 sites
- Eomarginifera longispinus8 sites
- Palaeosmilia murchisoni8 sites
- Siphonodendron pauciradiale8 sites
- Tetrataxis8 sites
- Brachythyris7 sites
- Camarotoechia7 sites
- Cleiothyridina7 sites
- Dibunophyllum7 sites
- Fenestella7 sites
- Leptagonia analoga7 sites
- Lithostrotion7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Clisiophyllum, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Clisiophyllum
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Clisiophyllum 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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What may have been alongside itClisiophyllinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dana 1846