Lamellofungia
Hébert · 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
- AgariciidaePBDB
- 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 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 110.1 Mya.
5 occurrences of Lamellofungia on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
5 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
4 formations
- Sanganeh Formation2
- Zapotitlan Formation1
- Sierra del Pozo Formation1
- Espinazo del Diablo Formation · Lampazos Group1
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The named rock units Lamellofungia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lamellofungia and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Lamellofungia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Actinastrea1 site
- Amphiastrea1 site
- Amphiastrea basaltiformis1 site
- Astraeofungia diversisepta1 site
- Axosmilia1 site
- Bilaterocoenia1 site
- Clausastrea bolzei1 site
- Comalia fasciculata1 site
- Confusaforma prima1 site
- Cryptocoenia neocomiensis1 site
- Dimorphocoenia multitabulata1 site
- Eocomoseris1 site
- Eopreverastrea llanoensis1 site
- Floriastrea iberica1 site
- Heliocoenia1 site
- Heliocoenia lamellosa1 site
- Holocoenia micrantha1 site
- Hykeliphyllum1 site
- Latiastrea1 site
- Latiastrea canavarii1 site
- Latiastrea somaensis1 site
- Latomeandra isseli1 site
- Meandraraea miyakoensis1 site
- Microsolena1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Lamellofungia, 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
4 references- Lower Cretaceous corals from the Koppeh Dagh, NE-Iran2
- Middle Albian corals from the Espinazo del Diablo Formation (Lampazos Area, Sonora, Mexico)1
- A Lower Valanginian coral fauna from the South Iberian Palaeomargin (Internal Prebetic, SE Spain)1
- Barremian corals from San Antonio Texcala, Puebla, Mexico - A review of the type material of Felix 18911
Each of the 5 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. 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 Lamellofungia
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Hébert
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itAgariciidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alloiteau 1957