Microphyllia undans

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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 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 11 of 24 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 13 of 24 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 24 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 1 occurrence155–153 Mya — about 2 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 2 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences147–145 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 2 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 1 occurrence135–133 Mya — about 1 occurrence133–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–129 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–127 Mya — about 1 occurrence127–125 Mya — about 1 occurrence125–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence113–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152.21 Mya113.2 Mya159 Mya99 Mya

24 occurrences of Microphyllia undans 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

24 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

7 formations

Alikper — 39.60°N, 54.50°EAlikper — 35.47°N, 61.72°EGrodziszcze — 49.87°N, 19.77°EGrodziszcze — 49.93°N, 21.08°EMagyaregregy Conglomerate — 46.17°N, 18.25°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WSao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°WValfin — 46.43°N, 5.85°E

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The named rock units Microphyllia undans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Microphyllia undans and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Microphyllia undans and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

590 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Microphyllia undans, 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

14 references

Each of the 24 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. 2 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

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No picture of Microphyllia undans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Microphyllia undans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Microphyllia undans was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Étallon 1859)