Rhizangiidae

Rhizangiidae is a family of stony corals in the order Scleractinia. This family is closely related to Oculinidae. Members of this family are non-reef building corals and reproduce from stolons. The corallites are small and the septa are simple.

Rhizangiidae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 273 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 273 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 18 of 273 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 24 of 273 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 26 of 273 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 125 of 273 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 38 of 273 occurrencesPleistocene — about 29 of 273 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 4 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 6 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 7 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 10 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 16 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 27 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 30 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 34 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 23 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 12 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 18 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 54 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

273 occurrences of Rhizangiidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

273 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

63 formations

Chipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WTermofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°ETamiami — 26.14°N, 81.77°WTamiami — 27.32°N, 82.45°WTamiami — 26.13°N, 81.48°WKirkwood — 39.15°N, 74.69°WKirkwood — 39.40°N, 75.04°WKirkwood — 39.46°N, 75.30°WCaloosahatchee — 26.73°N, 81.48°WJackson Bluff — 30.38°N, 84.63°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 31.82°N, 92.33°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WTrstelj — 45.68°N, 13.97°ETrstelj — 45.57°N, 14.00°ECook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WSan Joaquin — 35.90°N, 120.00°WAgatdal — 70.60°N, 53.05°WAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°WMolare — 44.37°N, 8.20°EQom — 31.50°N, 52.73°EQom — 29.31°N, 56.18°ESan Juan — 16.67°N, 93.08°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WWaccamaw — 33.83°N, 78.89°WWaccamaw — 34.21°N, 81.31°WDubar — 11.24°N, 48.98°EDubar — 11.33°N, 49.30°EMurdock Station — 25.90°N, 81.30°WSagdere — 37.90°N, 29.30°ECayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.03°WKincaid — 31.22°N, 96.91°WKincaid — 31.23°N, 96.70°WPromina — 43.95°N, 16.12°E

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The named rock units Rhizangiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 147 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhizangiidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Rhizangiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,185 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 90 sites for Rhizangiidae, 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

96 references

Each of the 273 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. 84 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 Rhizangiidae

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

No 3D scan of Rhizangiidae 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

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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 1851