Spinophyllum occidentale
No picture of Spinophyllum occidentale was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Spinophyllum occidentale, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpinophyllumPBDB
- 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 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 385.9 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
6 occurrences of Spinophyllum occidentale on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
6 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Spinophyllum occidentale has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spinophyllum occidentale and its relatives
DevonianWhere Spinophyllum occidentale and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Aristophyllum1 site
- Chostophyllum1 site
- Glossophyllum1 site
- Spinophyllum arduum1 site
- Spinophyllum blacourti1 site
- Spinophyllum longiseptatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Spinophyllum occidentale, 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
4 references- The Givetian-Frasnian Hönne Valley Reef Complex (northern Sauerland) – an outline of stratigraphy and facies development2
- Rugose corals from the Devonian Kowala Formation of the Holy Cross Mountains2
- Solitary rugose corals from the Givetian of the Khoshyeilagh Formation (Eastern Alborz Mountains, NE Iran)1
- Stratigraphie und Systematik rugoser Korallen aus dem Givetium und Unter-Frasnium des Rheinischen Schiefergebirges (Sauerland/Bergisches Land) [Stratigraphy and systematics of rugose corals from the Givetian and Lower Frasnian of the Rheinisches Schiefergebirge (Sauerland/Bergisches Land)]1
Each of the 6 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Spinophyllum occidentale was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Spinophyllum occidentale, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spinophyllum occidentale 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSpinophyllum through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hill and Jell 1970)