Heterophyllia (Heterophyllia)

No picture of Heterophyllia (Heterophyllia) 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 Heterophyllia (Heterophyllia), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeterophylliaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Heterophylliidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Heterophylliidae
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Heterophylliidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At most 17 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 330.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous347–347 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences345–345 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences344–344 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences343–343 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences341–341 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences340–340 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences339–339 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences338–337 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences337–337 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336–336 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences333–333 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences332–332 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences347.2 Mya329.8 Mya

1 occurrence of Heterophyllia (Heterophyllia) on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

1 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

1 formation

Tzemenchiao — 27.73°N, 112.22°E

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The named rock units Heterophyllia (Heterophyllia) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Heterophyllia (Heterophyllia) and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Heterophyllia (Heterophyllia) and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Heterophyllia (Heterophyllia), 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Heterophyllia (Heterophyllia) 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 Heterophyllia (Heterophyllia), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Heterophyllia (Heterophyllia) was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itHeterophyllia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schindewolf 1941