Stylophora italica
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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 most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Stylophora italica 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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.
Stylophora italica and its relatives
EoceneWhere Stylophora italica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Stylophora distans2 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 italica, 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
3 references- A coral hotspot from a hot past: The EECO and post-EECO rich reef coral fauna from Friuli (Eocene, NE Italy)2
- Lutetian corals from Crni Kal in Yugoslavia1
- Paläontologische Studien über die älteren Tertiärschichten der Alpen. III. Abtheilung. Die fossilien anthozoen der Schichtengruppe von S. Giovanni Ilarione und von Ronca1
Each of the 4 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
Media content0
No picture of Stylophora italica 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 italica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Stylophora italica 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.
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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. d'Achiardi 1866