Siphonophyllia

Siphonophyllia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyathopsidaePBDB
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 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 6 of 50 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 44 of 50 occurrencesCarboniferous373–371 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences370–368 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences368–366 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences365–363 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences363–361 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences358–356 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences353–351 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences351–349 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences348–346 Mya — about 2 occurrences346–344 Mya — about 4 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 4 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 4 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 5 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 6 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 6 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 3 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 3 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 3 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 1 occurrence329–327 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358.86 Mya330.3 Mya373 Mya322 Mya

50 occurrences of Siphonophyllia 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

50 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

20 formations

Black Rock Limestone — 51.57°N, 4.33°WPercha Shale — 32.76°N, 107.54°WPercha Shale — 32.84°N, 108.36°WPercha Shale — 32.80°N, 107.97°WMoel Hiraddug Limestone — 53.32°N, 3.42°WMoel Hiraddug Limestone — 53.42°N, 3.00°WBricklieve Limestone — 54.05°N, 8.37°WBricklieve Limestone — 54.10°N, 8.25°WTizra — 33.53°N, 5.39°WMeilukahe — 44.52°N, 82.88°EMaydown Limestone — 54.42°N, 6.73°WFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WFeltrim — 53.62°N, 6.92°WIdmarrach — 33.53°N, 5.39°WKoudiat Es-Senn — 34.36°N, 2.06°WKoudiat Es-Senn — 34.37°N, 2.00°WSpring Quarry Limestone — 53.13°N, 3.22°WLlanarmon Limestone — 53.13°N, 3.22°WSablé — 48.08°N, 0.65°WPotts Beck Limestone — 54.47°N, 2.35°WGlencar Limestone — 54.25°N, 8.15°WLimerick Limestone — 52.65°N, 8.95°WKizelov — 54.88°N, 52.33°EBallyadams — 52.83°N, 6.92°WAssekaifaf — 27.32°N, 9.73°EBou-Rifi — 32.92°N, 5.65°W

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The named rock units Siphonophyllia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Siphonophyllia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Siphonophyllia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

149 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Siphonophyllia, 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

21 references

Each of the 50 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. 9 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 content2

Picture of Siphonophyllia

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scouler 1844