Colpophyllia iranica
No picture of Colpophyllia iranica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Colpophyllia iranica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ColpophylliaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Faviina
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Faviina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 29 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Colpophyllia iranica on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
2 occurrencesThese 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 Colpophyllia iranica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Colpophyllia iranica and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Colpophyllia iranica and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Acanthastrea1 site
- Acropora1 site
- Actinacis rollei1 site
- Agathiphyllia1 site
- Alveopora1 site
- Antiguastrea1 site
- Astreopora meneghiniana1 site
- Astreopora stellaris1 site
- Astrocoenia nana1 site
- Astrocoenia zitteli1 site
- Caulastrea farsis1 site
- Diploastrea coronata1 site
- Diploastrea costata1 site
- Favites1 site
- Favites inaequiseptata1 site
- Goniopora1 site
- Leptoria1 site
- Montastraea1 site
- Monticulastraea insignis1 site
- Monticulastraea solidior1 site
- Plesiastrea1 site
- Porites1 site
- Stylocoenia taurinensis1 site
- Stylophora sokkohensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Colpophyllia iranica, 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
2 references- The paleoecology and depositional model of the Oligo-Miocene coral reefs in the Mohammad Abad Area, the west of Baft, SW Kerman, Iran1
- Scleractinian corals from the Oligocene of the Qom Formation (Esfahan-Sirjan fore-arc basin, Iran)1
Each of the 2 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 Colpophyllia iranica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Colpophyllia iranica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Colpophyllia iranica 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 itColpophyllia through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schuster 2002)