Elasmophyllia

Elasmophyllia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MontlivaltiidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Montlivaltiidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Montlivaltiidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 199 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 239.48 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 5 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 5 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences244–236 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–80 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences80–73 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences73–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–30 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences237 Mya37.71 Mya244 Mya30 Mya

5 occurrences of Elasmophyllia 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

5 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

2 formations

Nosoko — 24.42°N, 124.08°EZhuganpo — 25.38°N, 105.71°E

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The named rock units Elasmophyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Elasmophyllia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Elasmophyllia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

5 references

Each of the 5 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 Elasmophyllia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Elasmophyllia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMontlivaltiidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Achiardi 1875