Rotiphyllum

Rotiphyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AntiphyllinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 85 million years on record.

The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 65 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 62 of 65 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 65 occurrencesPermian361–357 Mya — about 1 occurrence357–354 Mya — about 2 occurrences354–351 Mya — about 3 occurrences351–348 Mya — about 3 occurrences348–344 Mya — about 6 occurrences344–341 Mya — about 6 occurrences341–338 Mya — about 4 occurrences338–335 Mya — about 5 occurrences335–331 Mya — about 7 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 2 occurrences328–325 Mya — about 1 occurrence325–321 Mya — about 11 occurrences321–318 Mya — about 3 occurrences318–315 Mya — about 3 occurrences315–312 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences312–308 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences308–305 Mya — about 2 occurrences305–302 Mya — about 2 occurrences302–298 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences276–272 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences272–269 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences269–266 Mya — about 1 occurrence266–262 Mya — about 1 occurrence351.9 Mya266.9 Mya361 Mya262 Mya

65 occurrences of Rotiphyllum on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

65 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

23 formations

Edwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WAheimer — 29.42°N, 32.50°EGayle Limestone Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WAlan Mountain Limestone — 47.42°N, 105.59°WRepreso — 30.72°N, 112.35°WGayle Shale — 54.30°N, 2.15°WSimonstone Limestone IV Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WOstrava — 50.28°N, 18.67°ERockford Limestone — 38.48°N, 85.75°WEscabrosa Limestone — 31.66°N, 110.90°WHunts Bay Oolite — 51.55°N, 4.20°WPicos de Europa — 43.32°N, 5.05°WMiddle Limestone Va Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WUnderset Limestone VIII — 54.30°N, 2.15°WDokuchaevsk — 47.73°N, 37.67°EHuanggangliang — 43.94°N, 118.25°EYuquan — 45.41°N, 127.17°EYangweishan — 32.50°N, 80.05°EZindancik — 36.93°N, 32.43°EBlagodatnian — 47.85°N, 38.00°ETin Mountain — 36.74°N, 117.45°WBou-Rifi — 32.92°N, 5.65°W

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The named rock units Rotiphyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rotiphyllum and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Rotiphyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

601 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Rotiphyllum, 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

23 references

Each of the 65 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. 11 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 Rotiphyllum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itAntiphyllinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hudson 1942