Microphyllia davidsoni

Microphyllia davidsoni

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicrophylliaPBDB
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 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 145.06 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 4 of 5 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165.3 Mya145.06 Mya168.7 Mya142.6 Mya

5 occurrences of Microphyllia davidsoni 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

5 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

Stramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EPteroceriano — 38.93°N, 9.13°W

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The named rock units Microphyllia davidsoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Microphyllia davidsoni and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

279 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Microphyllia davidsoni, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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 Microphyllia davidsoni

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

No 3D scan of Microphyllia davidsoni 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 itMicrophyllia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)