Euphyllia caliculata

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 14 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 10 of 14 occurrencesOligocene67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61.66 Mya33.9 Mya66.8 Mya26.5 Mya

14 occurrences of Euphyllia caliculata on record. 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

14 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

3 formations

Castelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.55°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.52°N, 11.48°EEptachorion — 40.13°N, 21.14°ETrstelj — 45.68°N, 13.97°E

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The named rock units Euphyllia caliculata 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.

Found in the same rock

46 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Euphyllia caliculata, 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

6 references

Each of the 14 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Euphyllia caliculata 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Catullo 1852)