Lophophyllidiidae

Lophophyllidium proliferum (McChesney, 1860), a relative of Lophophyllidiidae — not Lophophyllidiidae itself

Not Lophophyllidiidae. This is Lophophyllidium proliferum (McChesney, 1860), a relative — both are Lophophyllidiidae.

Heuer, Edward · CC0 · 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
StauriidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 71 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 7 of 18 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 11 of 18 occurrencesPermian348–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences342–339 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences339–336 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences336–333 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences309–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–303 Mya — about 1 occurrence303–300 Mya — about 3 occurrences300–297 Mya — about 2 occurrences297–294 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–288 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences288–285 Mya — about 2 occurrences285–282 Mya — about 2 occurrences282–279 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences276–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences267–264 Mya — about 3 occurrences264–261 Mya — about 1 occurrence261–258 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences335.9 Mya264.28 Mya348 Mya258 Mya

18 occurrences of Lophophyllidiidae on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

18 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

8 formations

Gaptank — 30.35°N, 103.13°WGaptank — 30.35°N, 103.12°WGaptank — 30.32°N, 103.23°WSisophon — 13.60°N, 102.96°ESisophon — 13.59°N, 102.94°ESisophon — 13.05°N, 103.06°ESisophon — 12.86°N, 103.02°EAheimer — 29.42°N, 32.50°ENeal Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.13°WHess — 30.35°N, 103.22°WZrigat — 31.02°N, 3.73°WOrlovka — 65.78°N, 59.45°ELenox Hills — 30.32°N, 103.23°W

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The named rock units Lophophyllidiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lophophyllidiidae and its relatives

Permian

Where Lophophyllidiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

167 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Lophophyllidiidae, 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

8 references

Each of the 18 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 Lophophyllidium proliferum (McChesney, 1860)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Heuer, Edward
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lophophyllidiidae 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.

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What may have been alongside itStauriida through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moore and Jeffords 1945