Wannerophyllum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VerbeekiellidaePBDB
- 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 52 million years on record.
The record covers at least 307 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
20 occurrences of Wannerophyllum on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
20 occurrences- Carboniferous15%
- Permian85%
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
6 formations
- Atahoc Formation2
- Picos de Europa Formation2
- Bagh-e Vang Formation2
- Tashly Formation1
- Senja Formation1
- Kochusu Formation1
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The named rock units Wannerophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Wannerophyllum and its relatives
PermianWhere Wannerophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
205 taxa- Verbeekiella australis8 sites
- Tachylasma beyrichi6 sites
- Carcinophyllum wichmanni5 sites
- Timorphyllum variabile5 sites
- Tachylasma timorense4 sites
- Amplexus coralloides3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Gertholites curvatus3 sites
- Gertholites jabiensis3 sites
- Hypocrinus schneideri3 sites
- Plerophyllum3 sites
- Pseudofavosites stylifer3 sites
- Timorphyllum wanneri3 sites
- Verbeekiella rothpletzi3 sites
- Aricoceras cancellatum2 sites
- Aulohelia irregularis2 sites
- Aulohelia laevis2 sites
- Aulopora timorica2 sites
- Bolbocrinus2 sites
- Cadocrinus variabilis2 sites
- Calophyllum2 sites
- Calophyllum angustum2 sites
- Capulus pretiosus2 sites
- Cladochonus magnus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Wannerophyllum, 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- Der palaeontologische Charakter der Anthozoën-fauna des Perm von Timor8
- Rugose corals from the upper member of the Picos de Europa Formation (Moscovian, Cantabrian Mountains, NW Spain)2
- The coral fossils of the Mount Qomolangma region2
- Die paläozoischen Korallenfaunen Ost-Irans 2. Rugosa und Tabulata der Jamal-Formation (Darwasian ?, Perm)2
- Ecological aspects of upper Carboniferous - lower Permian 'Cyathaxonia Fauna' taxonomical diversity (the Urals)1
- Distribution, taxonomy and morphology of Permian Rugosa of southeastern Pamir (Tadzhikistan)1
- Discovery of Lytvolasma fauna from western section of eastern Kunlun Mountains1
- Paläozoische Korallen aus der Tibetischen Zone von Dolpo (Nepal)1
- Zur Stratigraphie von Portugiesisch Timor1
- Die Perm-, Trias- und Jura-Formation auf Timor und Rotti im Indischen Archipel1
Each of the 20 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 Wannerophyllum
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Wannerophyllum 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.
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What may have been alongside itVerbeekiellidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schouppe 1955