Temnophyllum

Searched as Diplophyllum. The Paleobiology Database treats Temnophyllum as the accepted name.

Temnophyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CharactophyllidaePBDB
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 least 67 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 150 occurrencesSilurian — about 6 of 150 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 144 of 150 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 150 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–433 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences433–430 Mya — about 2 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences424–421 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences392–389 Mya — about 1 occurrence389–386 Mya — about 25 occurrences386–383 Mya — about 46 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 33 occurrences381–378 Mya — about 13 occurrences378–375 Mya — about 11 occurrences375–372 Mya — about 10 occurrences372–369 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences369–366 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences366–363 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences363–360 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences432.9 Mya365.2 Mya445 Mya357 Mya

150 occurrences of Temnophyllum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

150 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

54 formations

Pillara — 17.50°S, 125.00°EPillara — 18.50°S, 125.87°ESadler Limestone — 18.00°S, 125.50°EFlinz Limestone — 51.37°N, 7.60°EFlinz Limestone — 51.38°N, 7.77°EDonggangling — 22.39°N, 107.55°EDonggangling — 24.98°N, 109.98°EDonggangling — 24.10°N, 109.98°EDonggangling — 24.45°N, 108.30°EDonggangling — 25.50°N, 110.25°EBuechel — 51.00°N, 7.17°EQiziqiao — 27.83°N, 111.58°EQiziqiao — 27.78°N, 111.48°EQiziqiao — 27.40°N, 111.27°ESchwelm Limestone — 51.30°N, 7.28°ELaoyefen — 24.45°N, 108.30°EPortilla — 42.83°N, 1.57°EPortilla — 42.84°N, 5.50°WBurdekin — 20.07°S, 146.23°EBurdekin — 19.73°S, 146.43°EBurdekin — 19.90°S, 146.23°ERamparts — 65.28°N, 126.85°WRongxian — 22.39°N, 107.55°ERongxian — 24.98°N, 109.98°EHay River — 61.00°N, 117.00°WTwin Falls — 61.00°N, 117.00°WCandás — 43.35°N, 6.02°WKowala — 50.83°N, 20.37°EKowala — 50.73°N, 20.45°EKowala — 50.80°N, 20.47°EDushan — 25.42°N, 107.38°EDushan — 25.83°N, 107.57°EMaymyo — 21.87°N, 96.57°EMaymyo — 22.00°N, 97.00°EAlexandra — 60.50°N, 116.25°WAlexandra — 60.83°N, 116.62°WKellergrat Reef Limestone — 46.62°N, 12.88°ETorringen — 51.02°N, 7.18°ETorringen — 50.98°N, 7.10°EQuy Dat — 17.90°N, 105.82°ESulphur Point — 60.93°N, 114.57°WSulphur Point — 61.02°N, 114.25°WCürten — 50.38°N, 6.70°E

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The named rock units Temnophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Temnophyllum and its relatives

Devonian

Where Temnophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

437 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Temnophyllum, 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

48 references

Each of the 150 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. 36 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

Media content1

Picture of Temnophyllum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itCharactophyllidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Soshkina 1939