Pattalophyllia

Pattalophyllia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AgathiphylliidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 35 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 35 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 20 of 35 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 35 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 35 occurrencesMiocene73–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66 Mya20.45 Mya73 Mya15 Mya

35 occurrences of Pattalophyllia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

35 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

12 formations

Promina — 43.95°N, 16.12°EPromina — 43.93°N, 16.07°ECastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.55°N, 11.45°EQom — 31.50°N, 52.73°ESalcedo — 45.77°N, 11.60°ECalvene — 45.77°N, 11.60°EGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°EGashr Ghand — 26.02°N, 61.01°ETitanosarcolites Limestone — 18.33°N, 78.23°WSan Juan — 16.72°N, 93.08°WWaschberg — 48.42°N, 16.28°ETossa — 41.55°N, 1.57°EIgualada — 41.58°N, 1.75°E

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The named rock units Pattalophyllia 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.

Pattalophyllia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Pattalophyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

249 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Pattalophyllia, 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

15 references

Each of the 35 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. 3 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 Pattalophyllia

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

No 3D scan of Pattalophyllia was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itAgathiphylliidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Achiardi 1867