Tortoflabellum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EuphylliinaePBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Faviina
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Faviina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 99 million years on record.
The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 11.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 7.2 Mya.
21 occurrences of Tortoflabellum on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
21 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
5 formations
- Galala Formation8
- Termofourà Formation2
- Titanosarcolites Limestone Formation1
- Mount Brown Formation1
- Halal Formation1
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The named rock units Tortoflabellum 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.
Tortoflabellum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Tortoflabellum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
311 taxa- Chondrodonta4 sites
- Pchelinsevia3 sites
- Tylostoma cossoni3 sites
- Ampullina2 sites
- Coenholectypus larteti2 sites
- Diplogyra arasensis2 sites
- Granocardium2 sites
- Icthyosarcolites2 sites
- Neithea (Neithea) dutrugei2 sites
- Neoptyxis2 sites
- Praeradiolites2 sites
- Pterodonta2 sites
- Pyrazus valeriae2 sites
- Acanthastrea crenulata1 site
- Acanthastrea termofurae1 site
- Acropora bonellii1 site
- Acropora exarata1 site
- Acropora lavandulina1 site
- Actinaraea robusta1 site
- Actinastrea aequibernensis1 site
- Agathelia minor1 site
- Agrostyliastraea irregularis1 site
- Anomocora rarogemmans1 site
- Anorthopygus orbicularis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Tortoflabellum, 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
10 references- Taxonomy and palaeoecology of the Cenomanian-Turonian macroinvertebrates from eastern Sinai, Egypt (part A)5
- Early Cenomanian coral faunas from Nea Nikopoli (Kozani, Greece; Cretaceous)3
- Palaeoecology and environmental significance of benthic associations from the Cenomanian-Turonian of eastern Sinai, Egypt3
- The Cretaceous and Tertiary corals of New Zealand3
- Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]2
- An Early Albian shallow marine coral fauna from Southern France – insight into evolution and palaeobiogeography of Cretaceous corals1
- Aspidiscus cristatus (Lamarck) from the Cenomanian of Wadi Quseib, East Sinai, Egypt1
- pers. comm.1
- Albian corals from the Subpelagonian Zone of Central Greece (Agrostylia, Parnassos region)1
- Additional Cretaceous and Tertiary corals from New Zealand1
Each of the 21 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 Tortoflabellum 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 Tortoflabellum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tortoflabellum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEuphylliinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Squires 1958