Dictuophyllia collignoni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DictuophylliaPBDB
- 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 26 million years on record.
The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
4 occurrences of Dictuophyllia collignoni on record, most of them in the Early 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
4 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Dictuophyllia collignoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dictuophyllia collignoni and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Dictuophyllia collignoni and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Amphiastrea monosepta1 site
- Anisoceras1 site
- Anisoceras perarmatum1 site
- Axosmilia1 site
- Axosmilia bangoinensis1 site
- Biticinella1 site
- Cyathophora bangoinensis1 site
- Diplocoenia hayasakai1 site
- Durnovarites1 site
- Eohydnophora1 site
- Epistreptophyllum1 site
- Epistreptophyllum discus1 site
- Epistreptophyllum tricentrum1 site
- Globigerina washitensis1 site
- Goodhallites1 site
- Heliocoenia rozkowskae1 site
- Hypengonoceras decaryi1 site
- Montlivaltia bangoinensis1 site
- Montlivaltia caryophyllata1 site
- Montlivaltia mallens1 site
- Montlivaltia truncata1 site
- Montlivaltia zangbeiensis1 site
- Mortoniceras (Deiradoceras)1 site
- Mortoniceras (Deiradoceras) cunningtoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Dictuophyllia collignoni, 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- Cretaceous corals from Tibet (China) - stratigraphic and palaeobiogeographic aspects3
- Monographie des madreporaires fossiles de Madagascar [Monograph of fossil corals from Madagascar]1
Each of the 4 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 content1
Picture of Dictuophyllia collignoni
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Dictuophyllia collignoni 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 itDictuophyllia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alloiteau 1958