Faksephyllia faxoensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FaksephylliaPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivorePBDB, for Caryophylliidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunal, solitary, clonalPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Faksephyllia faxoensis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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- Paleocene100%
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 Faksephyllia faxoensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Faksephyllia faxoensis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Faksephyllia faxoensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Caryophyllia4 sites
- Caryophyllia konincki4 sites
- Dendrophyllia candelabrum4 sites
- Oculina becki4 sites
- Flabellum anderssoni3 sites
- Acabaria mangyschlakensis1 site
- Astya1 site
- Balanophyllia cf. ponderosa texana1 site
- Bathycyathus lloydi1 site
- Ceratotrochus supracretacea1 site
- Desmophyllum1 site
- Discotrochus1 site
- Errina1 site
- Exogyra1 site
- Heliopora1 site
- Lophelia1 site
- Moltkia1 site
- Moltkia minuta1 site
- Parasmilia1 site
- Parasmilia centralis1 site
- Parisis1 site
- Parisis erratica1 site
- Parisis vertebralis1 site
- Porina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Faksephyllia faxoensis, 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
4 references- Coral fauna across the Cretaceous– Paleogene boundary at Zagros and Sistan Suture zones and Yazd Block of Iran4
- The Danian (Paleocene) coral limestone of Fakse, Denmark: a model for ancient aphotic, azooxanthellate coral mounds4
- Scleractinian corals from the Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary of Nugssuaq, West Greenland4
- Kuzmicheva, 19872
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
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No picture of Faksephyllia faxoensis 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 Faksephyllia faxoensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Faksephyllia faxoensis 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 itFaksephyllia through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Beck 1835)