Gigantostylis epigonus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GigantostylisPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 205.7 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Gigantostylis epigonus on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
3 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Gigantostylis epigonus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gigantostylis epigonus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Gigantostylis epigonus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
91 taxa- Astraeomorpha confusa3 sites
- Astraeomorpha crassisepta3 sites
- Coccophyllum sturi3 sites
- Distichophyllia norica3 sites
- Gablonzeria profunda3 sites
- Kuhnastraea decussata3 sites
- Kuhnastraea incrassata3 sites
- Margarosmilia charlyana3 sites
- Palaeastraea grandissima3 sites
- Pamiroseris rectilamellosa3 sites
- Phacelostylophyllum zitteli3 sites
- Procyclolites triadicus3 sites
- Retiophyllia caespitosa3 sites
- Retiophyllia frechi3 sites
- Retiophyllia norica3 sites
- Retiophyllia oppeli3 sites
- Stylophyllopsis polyactis3 sites
- Chondrocoenia ohmanni2 sites
- Chondrocoenia schafhaeutli2 sites
- Crassistella juvavica2 sites
- Cuifastraea arthaberi2 sites
- Cycliphyllia cyclica2 sites
- Cycliphyllia major2 sites
- Distichomeandra austriaca2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Gigantostylis epigonus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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
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No picture of Gigantostylis epigonus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Gigantostylis epigonus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itGigantostylis through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frech 1890