Lobophyllia

Lobophyllia, commonly called lobed brain coral or lobo coral, is a genus of large polyp stony corals. Members of this genus are sometimes found in reef aquariums.

Lobophyllia

Stan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
LobophylliidaePBDB
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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 118 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 118 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 118 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 89 of 118 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.5–5.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 89 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

118 occurrences of Lobophyllia on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

118 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

16 formations

Sobe — 26.39°N, 127.73°ESalayar — 6.18°S, 120.43°ESalayar — 5.90°S, 120.50°ENuma — 34.97°N, 139.83°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°ENias — 1.12°N, 97.62°EGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°EDarkhunish — 26.53°N, 57.58°ERyukyu Limestone — 24.50°N, 124.26°EPucangan — 7.23°S, 112.75°EUpper Kalibeng — 8.00°S, 114.00°ESondé — 8.00°S, 114.00°EHateruma — 24.04°N, 123.79°ENabire — 3.60°S, 135.52°EDayrell — 29.23°S, 177.82°WNaha — 26.08°N, 127.67°EMerizo — 13.23°N, 144.72°E

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The named rock units Lobophyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 90 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lobophyllia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Lobophyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

417 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Lobophyllia, 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

47 references

Each of the 118 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. 35 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 content2

Picture of Lobophyllia

Credit
Stan Shebs
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLobophylliidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blainville 1830