Lophophyllum

Searched as Lophophyllum westii. The Paleobiology Database treats Lophophyllum as the accepted name.

Lophophyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LophophyllidaePBDB
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 most 2.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 306 Mya and 303.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferous306–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306.5 Mya303.2 Mya

4 occurrences of Lophophyllum on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

4 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

2 formations

Pottawatomie — 39.10°N, 94.57°WPottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°WDouglas — 39.01°N, 95.25°WDouglas — 39.04°N, 95.39°W

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The named rock units Lophophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Lophophyllum and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Lophophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

336 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Lophophyllum, 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

1 reference

Each of the 4 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 content2

Picture of Lophophyllum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itLophophyllidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850