Holmophyllum

Klaamann, Einar · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HolmophyllidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 399.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 393.47 Mya.
47 occurrences of Holmophyllum on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
47 occurrencesThese 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
25 formations
- Turkparidinskaya Formation4
- Quinton Formation3
- Verkhneargskaya Formation3
- Khandyg Formation3
- Isfara Formation2
- Kekexiongkuduke Formation2
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The named rock units Holmophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Holmophyllum and its relatives
SilurianWhere Holmophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
280 taxa- Favosites19 sites
- Tryplasma12 sites
- Heliolites10 sites
- Squameofavosites10 sites
- Syringopora9 sites
- Phaulactis8 sites
- Entelophyllum7 sites
- Mesofavosites7 sites
- Favosites forbesi6 sites
- Rhizophyllum6 sites
- Atrypoidea5 sites
- Kitakamiphyllum5 sites
- Lissatrypa5 sites
- Pachyfavosites5 sites
- Parastriatopora5 sites
- Amphipora4 sites
- Atrypa4 sites
- Cladopora4 sites
- Cystiphyllum4 sites
- Isorthis4 sites
- Microplasma4 sites
- Mucophyllum4 sites
- Pilophyllum4 sites
- Pseudamplexus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Holmophyllum, 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
17 references- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China10
- Daunton i nizhniy devon Zeravshano-Gissarskoy gornoy oblasti. The Downtonian and lower Devonian of the Zeravshan-Hissar mountain region.9
- Stratigraphy and facies of the Middle Paleozoic of parts of southern Tien-Shan in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan4
- Tien-Shan4
- Llandovery rugose corals from the Quinton Formation, Broken River Province, northeast Queensland3
- Ordovik i silur Yuzhnogo Verkhoyanya (biostratigrafiya i paleontologiya) [The Ordovician and Silurian of the southern Verkhoyansk Range (biostratigraphy and paleontology)]3
- Animal and plant communities of Podolia2
- Aspects of the Silurian rugose coral fauna of the Yass region, New South Wales2
- Cheshuychatyye rugozy tsentralnogo Tadzhikistana [Fasciculate rugose corals from central Tadzhikistan]2
- Silurian Holmophyllidae (Rugosa) from the Gionyama Formation of the Kurosegawa Terrane, Southwest Japan1
- High-energy sedimentary events in lagoonal successions of the Upper Silurian of Podolia, Ukraine1
- Biotic structure and morphology of patch reefs from South China (Ningqiang Formation, Telychian, Llandovery, Silurian)1
Each of the 47 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Holmophyllum
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Klaamann, Einar
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Holmophyllum 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 itHolmophyllidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wedekind 1927