Microphyllia

Microphyllia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LatomeandridaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Latomeandridae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Latomeandridae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 109 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 191 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 11 of 191 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 23 of 191 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 88 of 191 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 51 of 191 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 19 of 191 occurrencesLate Cretaceous202–198 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences198–193 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences193–189 Mya — about 2 occurrences189–184 Mya — about 3 occurrences184–180 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences180–176 Mya — about 3 occurrences176–171 Mya — about 3 occurrences171–167 Mya — about 14 occurrences167–162 Mya — about 6 occurrences162–158 Mya — about 19 occurrences158–154 Mya — about 27 occurrences154–149 Mya — about 14 occurrences149–145 Mya — about 23 occurrences145–140 Mya — about 7 occurrences140–136 Mya — about 5 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 11 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 4 occurrences127–123 Mya — about 10 occurrences123–118 Mya — about 13 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–109 Mya — about 4 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–101 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–96 Mya — about 7 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 7 occurrences92–87 Mya — about 3 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences192.9 Mya83.6 Mya202 Mya70 Mya

191 occurrences of Microphyllia on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

191 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

40 formations

Slivnitsa — 42.77°N, 22.75°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.70°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.52°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.57°EKorycany — 50.27°N, 14.48°EKorycany — 50.20°N, 14.30°EKorycany — 50.20°N, 14.43°EGrodziszcze — 49.87°N, 19.77°EGrodziszcze — 49.93°N, 21.08°EAlikper — 39.60°N, 54.50°EAlikper — 35.47°N, 61.72°EMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°EBila hora — 50.17°N, 14.17°EBila hora — 50.02°N, 15.08°EBila hora — 50.05°N, 15.15°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EHanifa — 25.25°N, 46.00°EHanifa — 24.92°N, 46.25°EKorond — 34.17°N, 56.83°EKorond — 33.92°N, 57.33°EKorond — 34.25°N, 57.42°EPiedra Pintada — 39.87°S, 70.48°WPiedra Pintada — 40.13°S, 70.27°WMural Limestone — 29.75°N, 110.67°WMural Limestone — 30.17°N, 110.60°WWhite Limestone — 51.70°N, 1.78°WAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WDölzschen — 51.03°N, 13.70°ETanga Limestone — 5.08°S, 38.94°ETanga Limestone — 5.06°S, 39.05°EValfin — 46.43°N, 5.85°EMagyaregregy Conglomerate — 46.17°N, 18.25°ESchrattenkalk — 47.42°N, 10.22°EFalaise de Bikfaya — 33.92°N, 35.71°EPolypiers — 50.62°N, 13.80°ETichilesti — 44.42°N, 28.48°EBaghamshah — 33.92°N, 57.33°EKamar-e-Mehdi — 33.00°N, 56.50°E

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The named rock units Microphyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 96 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Microphyllia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Microphyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,567 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 101 sites for Microphyllia, 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

78 references

Each of the 191 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. 66 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 content1

Picture of Microphyllia

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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