Meandrophyllia

Meandrophyllia

via iDigBio · CC BY · via iDigBio. 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
MeandrophylliinaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Haplaraeidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Haplaraeidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 96 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 103 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 103 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 103 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 41 of 103 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 46 of 103 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 103 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 103 occurrences204–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–195 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences195–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–167 Mya — about 1 occurrence167–162 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–157 Mya — about 7 occurrences157–152 Mya — about 21 occurrences152–148 Mya — about 10 occurrences148–143 Mya — about 4 occurrences143–138 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–129 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–124 Mya — about 5 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 18 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 9 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 8 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 1 occurrence106–101 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–96 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–82 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–68 Mya — about 6 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences168.2 Mya72.2 Mya204 Mya63 Mya

103 occurrences of Meandrophyllia 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

103 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

22 formations

Maastricht — 50.82°N, 5.70°EMural Limestone — 29.75°N, 110.67°WMural Limestone — 30.17°N, 110.60°WZapotitlan — 18.40°N, 97.43°WHiraiga Sandstone — 39.92°N, 141.93°EHiraiga Sandstone — 39.68°N, 141.98°EMoshi Sandstone — 39.92°N, 141.93°EMoshi Sandstone — 39.82°N, 141.97°EMoshi Sandstone — 39.68°N, 141.98°ETendaguru — 9.62°S, 39.25°EAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.18°WAmaral — 39.02°N, 9.12°WLangshan — 33.23°N, 79.80°ELangshan — 32.23°N, 81.23°EBarranquin — 10.42°N, 63.50°WCumburindio — 18.52°N, 100.93°WOehrli — 47.38°N, 9.73°EOehrli — 47.40°N, 9.98°EBarranquín — 8.96°N, 63.55°WTataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°ECerro de Oro — 29.75°N, 110.67°WOrbitolina Limestone — 33.05°N, 51.95°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EGrodziszcze — 49.93°N, 21.08°EPteroceriano — 38.93°N, 9.13°WChimana — 10.30°N, 64.72°WYokonuma — 38.83°N, 141.62°ECardenas — 22.07°N, 100.98°WHauptraugenstein — 47.48°N, 7.95°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Meandrophyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 60 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meandrophyllia and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Meandrophyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

922 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Meandrophyllia, 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

46 references

Each of the 103 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. 34 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Meandrophyllia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Meandrophyllia 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itMeandrophylliinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. D'Orbigny 1849