Complexophyllum leithi
No picture of Complexophyllum leithi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Complexophyllum leithi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ComplexophyllumPBDB
- 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 4.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.2 Mya and 445.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Complexophyllum leithi 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
1 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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 Complexophyllum leithi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Complexophyllum leithi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Complexophyllum leithi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Bighornia patella1 site
- Calapoecia anticostiensis1 site
- Catenipora1 site
- cf. Ellisites astomata1 site
- Crenulites1 site
- Cystostroma sp.1 site
- Deiracorallium delicatum1 site
- Grewingkia crassa1 site
- Grewingkia dilata1 site
- Grewingkia lamellosa1 site
- Grewingkia robusta1 site
- Helicelasma randi1 site
- Manipora1 site
- Rhabdotetradium1 site
- Saffordophyllum newcombae1 site
- Stratodictyon1 site
- Zaphrenthis haysii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Complexophyllum leithi, 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
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Complexophyllum leithi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Complexophyllum leithi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itComplexophyllum through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Elias 1981