Flabellum irregulare
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FlabellumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Flabellum
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Flabellum
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Flabellum
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Flabellidae
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
7 occurrences of Flabellum irregulare on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
7 occurrences- Miocene63%
- Pliocene23%
- Pleistocene14%
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
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The named rock units Flabellum irregulare 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.
Flabellum irregulare and its relatives
MioceneWhere Flabellum irregulare and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Acropora2 sites
- Acropsammia2 sites
- Actinastrea minutissima2 sites
- Caryophyllia2 sites
- Cyphastrea2 sites
- Diplhelia2 sites
- Hydnophyllia2 sites
- Lithophyllia2 sites
- Lophelia2 sites
- Petrophylliella2 sites
- Porites2 sites
- Seriatopora ornata2 sites
- Stylophora cyclopleura2 sites
- Stylophora sokkohensis2 sites
- Trachyphyllia geoffroyi2 sites
- Trochoseris florescens2 sites
- Acropora duncani1 site
- Acropora pharaonis1 site
- Alveopora1 site
- Alveopora daedalea1 site
- Alveopora polyacantha1 site
- Anisocoenia crassisepta1 site
- Antillia turbinata1 site
- Astreopora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Flabellum irregulare, 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
5 references- Neue Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Korallenfauna des Tertiärs von Java. I: Die Korallen des Eocen und des älteren Neogen [The Tertiary coral fauna of Java. I: Eocene and Lower Neogene corals]2
- Jungtertiäre Korallen von Nias, Java und Borneo, nebst einer Übersicht über die aus dem Känozoikum des indischen Archipels bekannten Arten2
- Research on fossil corals from Java1
- Report on Pleistocene and Pliocene corals from Ceram1
- Die Anthozoenfauna des Jungtertiärs von Borneo [Anthozoa from the Upper Tertiary of Borneo]1
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Flabellum irregulare
- 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 of Flabellum irregulare 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 itFlabellum through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Semper 1872