Cycliphyllia cyclica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CycliphylliaPBDB
- 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 least 9.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 215.38 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
10 occurrences of Cycliphyllia cyclica on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
10 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
5 formations
- Zlambach Formation2
- Misfah Formation1
- Nimaloksa Formation · Lilang Group1
- Dachstein Formation1
- Dachstein Formation1
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The named rock units Cycliphyllia cyclica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cycliphyllia cyclica and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Cycliphyllia cyclica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
290 taxa- Pamiroseris rectilamellosa8 sites
- Sigmoilina7 sites
- Astraeomorpha crassisepta6 sites
- Echinoidea6 sites
- Galeanella6 sites
- Gastropoda6 sites
- Microtubus6 sites
- Ophthalmidium6 sites
- Palaeastraea grandissima6 sites
- Parachaetetes6 sites
- Peronidella6 sites
- Stylophyllum paradoxum6 sites
- Astraeomorpha confusa5 sites
- Bivalvia5 sites
- Cheilosporites tirolensis5 sites
- Chondrocoenia schafhaeutli5 sites
- Crinoidea5 sites
- Distichophyllia norica5 sites
- Ostracoda5 sites
- Pinacophyllum5 sites
- Procyclolites triadicus5 sites
- Seriastraea multiphylla5 sites
- Solenopora5 sites
- Stromatomorpha5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Cycliphyllia cyclica, 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
3 references- Triassic Corals of the Zlambach Beds, Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria7
- Mesozoic corals of Slovenia2
- Upper Triassic reefs of the Oman Mountains: Data from the south Tethyan margin1
Each of the 10 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 Cycliphyllia cyclica 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 Cycliphyllia cyclica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cycliphyllia cyclica 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 itCycliphyllia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schaffer and Senowbari-Daryan 1978)