Saffordophyllum newcombae
No picture of Saffordophyllum newcombae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Saffordophyllum newcombae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SaffordophyllumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At most 5.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 451 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Saffordophyllum newcombae on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
- Second Value Formation · Montoya Group1
- Red River Formation1
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The named rock units Saffordophyllum newcombae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Saffordophyllum newcombae and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Saffordophyllum newcombae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Bighornia patella1 site
- Calapoecia anticostiensis1 site
- Catenipora1 site
- cf. Ellisites astomata1 site
- Complexophyllum leithi1 site
- Crenulites1 site
- Cystostroma sp.1 site
- Deiracorallium delicatum1 site
- Grewingkia crassa1 site
- Grewingkia dilata1 site
- Grewingkia lamellosa1 site
- Grewingkia robusta1 site
- Helicelasma randi1 site
- Manipora1 site
- Rhabdotetradium1 site
- Stratodictyon1 site
- Zaphrenthis haysii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Saffordophyllum newcombae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Classification and controls of internal banding in Palaeozoic Stromatoporoids and colonial corals1
- Montoya and related colonial corals1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Saffordophyllum newcombae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Saffordophyllum newcombae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Saffordophyllum newcombae 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSaffordophyllum through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Flower 1961