Dictuophyllia

No picture of Dictuophyllia 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 Dictuophyllia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MerulinidaePBDB
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 98 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 52 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 52 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 42 of 52 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 52 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 52 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 52 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–137 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences137–133 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences133–129 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–113 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences113–109 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences101–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 4 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 5 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 5 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 15 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 14 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–57 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences57–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences132.6 Mya33.9 Mya145 Mya25 Mya

52 occurrences of Dictuophyllia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

52 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.

Found in

12 formations

Guinea Corn — 18.15°N, 77.37°WGuinea Corn — 18.16°N, 77.38°WMaastricht — 50.82°N, 5.70°ECardenas — 22.02°N, 99.63°WCardenas — 22.07°N, 100.98°WTitanosarcolites Limestone — 18.33°N, 78.23°WManiyara Fort — 23.67°N, 68.80°EXarquan — 31.75°N, 89.83°ELangshan — 33.45°N, 79.70°EZongshan — 28.30°N, 88.53°EOcozocoautla — 16.80°N, 93.37°WHochmoos — 47.57°N, 13.50°ECoamo — 18.33°N, 66.32°W"Catadupa Beds" — 18.28°N, 77.88°W

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The named rock units Dictuophyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dictuophyllia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Dictuophyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

227 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Dictuophyllia, 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

21 references

Each of the 52 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. 9 further references are not listed. 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

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No picture of Dictuophyllia 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 Dictuophyllia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dictuophyllia 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itMerulinidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blainville 1830