Disphyllum

Disphyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DisphyllinaePBDB
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 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 257 occurrencesSilurian — about 5 of 257 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 252 of 257 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 257 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences439–436 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences436–433 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences433–430 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences424–421 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 1 occurrence419–416 Mya — about 2 occurrences416–413 Mya — about 2 occurrences413–410 Mya — about 3 occurrences410–407 Mya — about 2 occurrences407–404 Mya — about 2 occurrences404–401 Mya — about 2 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 2 occurrences398–395 Mya — about 2 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 6 occurrences392–389 Mya — about 11 occurrences389–386 Mya — about 19 occurrences386–383 Mya — about 21 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 51 occurrences381–378 Mya — about 46 occurrences378–375 Mya — about 41 occurrences375–372 Mya — about 32 occurrences372–369 Mya — about 3 occurrences369–366 Mya — about 1 occurrence366–363 Mya — about 1 occurrence363–360 Mya — about 1 occurrence360–357 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences426.7 Mya372.15 Mya445 Mya357 Mya

257 occurrences of Disphyllum 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

257 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

85 formations

Pillara — 17.50°S, 125.00°EPillara — 18.22°S, 126.13°EPillara — 18.60°S, 126.10°EPillara — 17.62°S, 124.98°EPillara — 17.13°S, 124.70°ESadler Limestone — 18.00°S, 125.50°EHorn Plateau — 62.25°N, 119.25°WHorn Plateau — 62.17°N, 117.83°WHorn Plateau — 62.18°N, 117.53°WHorn Plateau — 61.75°N, 122.23°WCombe Martin Slates — 51.20°N, 4.03°WSchistes de Beaulieu — 50.84°N, 1.73°ESchistes de Beaulieu — 50.84°N, 1.76°EKowala — 50.80°N, 20.47°EKowala — 50.80°N, 20.57°EKowala — 50.73°N, 20.45°EKowala — 50.82°N, 20.42°ECandas — 43.49°N, 2.39°ESkajit — 67.69°N, 161.18°WSkajit — 67.80°N, 146.68°WSkajit — 67.62°N, 162.28°WSkajit — 67.36°N, 161.86°WSkajit — 67.68°N, 161.38°WHagen-Balve — 51.37°N, 7.86°EMartin — 34.75°N, 112.11°WMartin — 34.75°N, 112.13°WMartin — 34.87°N, 112.09°WMassenkalk — 51.12°N, 7.90°EMassenkalk — 51.38°N, 7.85°EMassenkalk — 51.38°N, 7.86°EMassenkalk — 51.00°N, 7.17°EBeul — 51.39°N, 7.87°EVilemovice Limestone — 49.23°N, 16.76°EJeffersonville Limestone — 38.50°N, 85.75°WJeffersonville Limestone — 38.25°N, 85.77°WCoopers Creek Limestone — 38.15°S, 146.47°EQiziqiao — 27.83°N, 111.58°EQiziqiao — 27.78°N, 111.48°EQiziqiao — 27.40°N, 111.27°EKakisa — 61.00°N, 120.00°WKakisa — 57.00°N, 124.00°WKakisa — 56.28°N, 123.40°WZhandr Horizon — 72.00°N, 52.00°EHume — 65.28°N, 128.77°WHume — 65.28°N, 128.89°WHume — 65.30°N, 126.57°WHume — 65.33°N, 129.98°WBrilon Massenkalk — 51.42°N, 8.58°EBrilon Massenkalk — 51.45°N, 8.63°EShell Rock — 43.13°N, 93.00°WVassino — 56.20°N, 86.43°EVassino — 55.05°N, 84.37°EAmherstburg — 43.98°N, 81.28°WDonggangling — 24.10°N, 109.98°EDonggangling — 25.50°N, 110.25°E

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The named rock units Disphyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 61 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Disphyllum and its relatives

Devonian

Where Disphyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

876 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 142 sites for Disphyllum, 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

75 references

Each of the 257 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. 63 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 content2

Picture of Disphyllum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fromentel 1861