Stylophora distans
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StylophoraPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
15 occurrences of Stylophora distans on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
15 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Stylophora distans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Stylophora distans and its relatives
EoceneWhere Stylophora distans and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Stylophora italica2 sites
- Actinacis cognata1 site
- Agathiphyllia bosniaca1 site
- Astrocoenia1 site
- Astrocoenia subreticulata1 site
- Calamophyllia1 site
- Caulastrea pseudoflabellum1 site
- Cyathoseris1 site
- Cyathoseris formosa1 site
- Dendracis1 site
- Dendracis seriata1 site
- Euphyllia1 site
- Favites1 site
- Flabellum1 site
- Hydrozoa1 site
- Manicina1 site
- Meandrina1 site
- Millepora1 site
- Nummulites1 site
- Pachygyra1 site
- Pachygyra savii1 site
- Paraleptoria flexuosissima1 site
- Parasmilia crnikalensis1 site
- Placosmilia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Stylophora distans, 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
8 references- Zgornjeeocenska favna iz okolice Drnisa [Upper Eocene fauna from Drnis area]5
- A Bükkhegyseg Eocen Koralljai [Eocene corals from the Bükk Mountains]3
- Lutetian corals from Crni Kal in Yugoslavia2
- A coral hotspot from a hot past: The EECO and post-EECO rich reef coral fauna from Friuli (Eocene, NE Italy)1
- Korallen und Balaniden aus den paläogenen Schichten Jugoslawiens [Corals and balanids from Paleogene beds of Yugoslavia]1
- La Fauna Oligocenica dei dintorni di Ovada (Alessandria)1
- Les polypiers anthozoaires du Stampien de Gaas (Landes) [Stampian corals from Gaas (Landes)]1
- Paläontologische Studien über die älteren Tertiärschichten der Alpen, 1: Die fossilen Anthozoen der Schichten von Castelgomberto [Paleontological studies about the older Tertiary beds in the Alps, 1: The fossil Anthozoa from the Castelcomberto Formation]1
Each of the 15 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. 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
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No picture of Stylophora distans 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 Stylophora distans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Stylophora distans 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.
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What may have been alongside itStylophora through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leymerie 1846)