Keriophyllia hourcqi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KeriophylliaPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Stylinidae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Stylinidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Keriophyllia hourcqi on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
2 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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.
Keriophyllia hourcqi and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Keriophyllia hourcqi and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Keriophyllia fischeri superficialis2 sites
- Macgeopsis complanata2 sites
- Macgeopsis grandidieri2 sites
- Montlivaltia caryophyllata2 sites
- Montlivaltia cottreaui2 sites
- Montlivaltia hourcqi2 sites
- Montlivaltia induta2 sites
- Adelocoenia luciensis1 site
- Andemantastraea tongoboryensis1 site
- Astraeofungia soaravikelyensis1 site
- Bathmosmilia hourcqi1 site
- Macgeopsis subcylindrata1 site
- Macgeopsis turbinata1 site
- Microphyllia madagascariensis procera1 site
- Montlivaltia soaravikelyensis1 site
- Ovalastraeopsis soaravikelyensis1 site
- Plesiocoenia menabensis1 site
- Pseudisastraea1 site
- Stylina hourcqi1 site
- Trigerastraea nuda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Keriophyllia hourcqi, 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 referenceEach of the 2 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 Keriophyllia hourcqi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Keriophyllia hourcqi 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 itKeriophyllia through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alloiteau 1958