Hydnophyllia

Hydnophyllia

Michelin · CC BY 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
MerulinidaePBDB
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 least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 12 of 41 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 19 of 41 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 9 of 41 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 41 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 41 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.6–8.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.0–6.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.4–4.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.8–3.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.2–1.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41.03 Mya3.6 Mya49 Mya1.7 Mya

41 occurrences of Hydnophyllia on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

41 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

11 formations

Castelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.55°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.75°N, 11.50°EQom — 31.50°N, 52.73°EQom — 29.31°N, 56.18°ECastro Limestone — 40.04°N, 18.45°EProgo Beds — 7.65°S, 110.05°EUm ad Dahiy — 29.75°N, 18.13°EAbu Hashish — 29.17°N, 18.83°ERiukiu limestone — 23.00°N, 122.00°EPromina — 43.85°N, 16.15°ESareweh — 7.75°S, 110.13°ECampello-Villajoyosa — 38.43°N, 0.35°WMikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°E

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The named rock units Hydnophyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hydnophyllia and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Hydnophyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

232 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Hydnophyllia, 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

23 references

Each of the 41 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. 11 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 Hydnophyllia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Michelin
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hydnophyllia 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itMerulinidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reis 1889