Lophelia

Lophelia

Uncredited · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
CaryophylliidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
colonial, clonal, depth=subthermoclinePBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 28 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 28 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 28 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 28 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 28 occurrencesPleistocene — about 15 of 28 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.7–4.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.5–2.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 14 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

28 occurrences of Lophelia 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

28 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

5 formations

Sobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WSicilian — 38.15°N, 15.65°EMaanshan — 21.97°N, 120.76°EGelingseh — 0.87°N, 117.85°ESareweh — 7.75°S, 110.13°E

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The named rock units Lophelia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lophelia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Lophelia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

134 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Lophelia, 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

Each of the 28 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 content2

Picture of Lophelia

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
squireM
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849