Trapezophyllum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhillipsastreidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At least 24 million years on record.
The record covers at least 399.5 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 358.86 Mya.
7 occurrences of Trapezophyllum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
7 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
5 formations
- Sipai Formation2
- Coopers Creek Limestone Formation1
- Martin Formation1
- Grands Breux Formation1
- Shell Rock Formation1
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The named rock units Trapezophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Trapezophyllum and its relatives
DevonianWhere Trapezophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Embolophyllum2 sites
- Favosites2 sites
- Iowaphyllum johanni2 sites
- Alatiformia1 site
- Athyris1 site
- Breviphyllum1 site
- Cystohexagonaria daleensis1 site
- Cystohexagonaria planotabulata1 site
- Dalerhynchus1 site
- Disphyllum1 site
- Favosites forbesi1 site
- Favosites goldfussi eifelensis1 site
- Heliolites1 site
- Hexagonaria1 site
- Hillaeopora spica1 site
- Indospirifer1 site
- Iowaphyllum1 site
- Lazutkinia1 site
- Leptoinophyllum simplex1 site
- Leptoinophyllum subvermiculare1 site
- Nowakia1 site
- Ozarkodina1 site
- Pachyfavosites1 site
- Parasmithiphyllum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Trapezophyllum, 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
6 references- Devonian sections in Guangxi from which pelecypods were collected2
- Frasnian Carbonate Buildups of southern Belgium: The Arche and Lion Members interpreted as Atolls1
- Frasnian (Upper Devonian) rugose corals from the Lime Creek and Shell Rock Formations of Iowa1
- The distribution of rugose corals in Frasnian outcrop sequences of North America1
- Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian corals of Alaska1
- The palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Siluro-Devonian sediments of the Tyers Area, Gippsland, Victoria1
Each of the 7 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 Trapezophyllum 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 Trapezophyllum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Trapezophyllum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPhillipsastreidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Etheridge 1899