Rhabdophyllia

Rhabdophyllia is an extinct genus of stony corals.

Rhabdophyllia

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
MontlivaltiidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Montlivaltiidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Montlivaltiidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 219 million years on record.

The record covers at least 239.48 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 243.43 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 51 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 51 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 51 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 51 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 51 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 34 of 51 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 51 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 51 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 51 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 51 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 51 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 51 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 51 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 51 occurrences248–240 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences240–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–199 Mya — about 2 occurrences199–190 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences190–182 Mya — about 1 occurrence166–157 Mya — about 14 occurrences157–149 Mya — about 20 occurrences133–124 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–8.8 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences8.8–571 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239.48 Mya20.45 Mya248 Mya571 ka

51 occurrences of Rhabdophyllia 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

51 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

Coral Rag de Trouville — 49.32°N, 0.03°ECoral Rag de Trouville — 48.60°N, 0.63°ECoral Rag de Trouville — 49.30°N, 0.07°WCoral Rag — 51.75°N, 1.25°WCoral Rag — 53.98°N, 1.53°WSaidabad Coral Limestone — 29.30°N, 56.18°ESaidabad Coral Limestone — 29.52°N, 55.88°ECalcare di Zu — 45.83°N, 9.58°ECalcare di Zu — 45.85°N, 9.42°ECoralline Oolite — 54.25°N, 0.47°WOsmington Oolite — 51.75°N, 1.25°WWest Walton — 52.18°N, 0.12°EWheatley Limestone — 51.75°N, 1.20°WQom — 31.50°N, 52.73°EYokonuma — 38.83°N, 141.62°ERajamandala — 6.82°S, 107.43°EBuchenstein — 46.55°N, 11.75°E

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The named rock units Rhabdophyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhabdophyllia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

379 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Rhabdophyllia, 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

19 references

Each of the 51 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. 7 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 Rhabdophyllia

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhabdophyllia 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itMontlivaltiidae 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