Trochocyathus microphyllus
No picture of Trochocyathus microphyllus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Trochocyathus microphyllus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrochocyathusPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivorePBDB, for Trochocyathus
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trochocyathus
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Trochocyathus
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
4 occurrences of Trochocyathus microphyllus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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.
Trochocyathus microphyllus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Trochocyathus microphyllus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Balanophyllia praelonga1 site
- Caryophyllia1 site
- Ceratotrochus1 site
- Dendrophyllia1 site
- Dendrophyllia taurinensis1 site
- Flabellum roissyanum1 site
- Paracyathus1 site
- Peponocyathus duncani1 site
- Polycyathus1 site
- Siderastrea italica1 site
- Stylocora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Trochocyathus microphyllus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Miocene Scleractinia from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland; I, Caryophyliidae, Flabellidae, Dendrophyliidae, and Micrabaciidae1
- Les Madréporaires miocènes de la vallée du Rhône1
- Les Madréporaires miocènes du Maroc1
- Koralowce z ilow tortonskich Beczyna [Corals from the Tortonian clay of Beczyn]1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Trochocyathus microphyllus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Trochocyathus microphyllus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Trochocyathus microphyllus 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 itTrochocyathus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reuss 1871)