Stylophyllum polyacanthum

Stylophyllum polyacanthum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StylophyllumPBDB
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 most 9.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 211.18 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 6 of 6 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrences211–211 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences211–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–206 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences205–205 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences203–203 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences203–203 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences202–202 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences202–202 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences211.7 Mya200.9 Mya

6 occurrences of Stylophyllum polyacanthum 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

6 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

2 formations

Zlambach — 47.62°N, 13.73°EZlambach — 47.50°N, 13.50°ECalcare di Zu — 45.80°N, 9.67°E

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The named rock units Stylophyllum polyacanthum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stylophyllum polyacanthum and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Stylophyllum polyacanthum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

206 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Stylophyllum polyacanthum, 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

4 references

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. 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 Stylophyllum polyacanthum

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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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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What may have been alongside itStylophyllum through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reuss 1854