Stylophyllopsis

Stylophyllopsis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StylophyllidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Stylophyllidae
Life habit
epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Stylophyllidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stylophyllidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Stylophyllidae

Time the record covers

At least 104 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 110 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 110 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 63 of 110 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 42 of 110 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 110 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 110 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 110 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous249–245 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences245–241 Mya — about 3 occurrences237–233 Mya — about 2 occurrences233–229 Mya — about 2 occurrences229–225 Mya — about 3 occurrences225–222 Mya — about 3 occurrences222–218 Mya — about 3 occurrences218–214 Mya — about 4 occurrences214–210 Mya — about 7 occurrences210–206 Mya — about 11 occurrences206–202 Mya — about 26 occurrences202–198 Mya — about 12 occurrences198–194 Mya — about 14 occurrences194–190 Mya — about 8 occurrences190–186 Mya — about 7 occurrences186–182 Mya — about 3 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences134–130 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences241.464 Mya137.05 Mya249 Mya130 Mya

110 occurrences of Stylophyllopsis on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

110 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

32 formations

Calcare di Zu — 45.98°N, 9.25°ECalcare di Zu — 45.85°N, 9.42°ECalcare di Zu — 45.85°N, 9.48°ECalcare di Zu — 45.82°N, 9.58°ECalcare di Zu — 45.82°N, 9.80°ECalcare di Zu — 45.72°N, 9.90°ECalcare di Zu — 45.80°N, 9.67°EBortepa — 37.33°N, 75.00°EBortepa — 37.50°N, 74.50°EBortepa — 37.47°N, 74.73°EBortepa — 39.27°N, 73.45°EZlambach — 47.62°N, 13.73°EZlambach — 47.50°N, 13.50°EZlambach — 47.55°N, 13.65°ENayband — 33.12°N, 51.98°ENayband — 32.37°N, 57.47°ENayband — 34.06°N, 58.08°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°ESutton stone — 51.43°N, 3.55°WHanwang — 31.45°N, 104.15°EHanwang — 31.63°N, 104.40°EShaimak — 37.50°N, 74.50°ENimaloksa — 32.23°N, 78.03°ENimaloksa — 31.83°N, 78.42°EChambara — 10.85°S, 76.17°WCondorsinga — 12.00°S, 75.36°WMartin Bridge Limestone — 45.12°N, 116.83°WBlack Limestones — 38.02°N, 14.73°EQingyan — 26.33°N, 106.67°ESunrise — 38.49°N, 118.08°WRiganpeicuo — 32.71°N, 84.29°EPiedra Pintada — 40.12°S, 70.27°WCoron — 12.15°N, 119.82°EKarchowice — 50.58°N, 18.17°EKamase — 32.35°N, 130.60°EChocolate — 16.27°S, 71.72°WCassian — 46.52°N, 12.10°EFatra — 49.10°N, 18.92°EKamawkale — 13.00°N, 99.00°E

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The named rock units Stylophyllopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stylophyllopsis and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Stylophyllopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

744 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 72 sites for Stylophyllopsis, 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

44 references

Each of the 110 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. 32 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 content1

Picture of Stylophyllopsis

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Frech 1890