Wapitiphyllum vallatum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WapitiphyllumPBDB
- 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 most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Wapitiphyllum vallatum 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Wapitiphyllum vallatum 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.
Wapitiphyllum vallatum and its relatives
DevonianWhere Wapitiphyllum vallatum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Bouvierphyllum altum2 sites
- Bouvierphyllum maclareni2 sites
- Chuanbeiphyllum2 sites
- Disphyllum2 sites
- Frechastraea2 sites
- Hexagonaria2 sites
- Hunanophrentis2 sites
- Mictophyllum2 sites
- Pantophyllum2 sites
- Phillipsastrea2 sites
- Piceaphyllum2 sites
- Plectophyllum kindlei2 sites
- Smithicyathus2 sites
- Thamnophyllum2 sites
- Bouvierphyllum cardinalense1 site
- Ceciliaphyllum1 site
- Hankaxis ostentus1 site
- Kakisaphyhllum larus1 site
- Macgeea1 site
- Pachyphyllum1 site
- Parasmithiphyllum kakisianum1 site
- Peneckiella1 site
- Ptychophyllum1 site
- Smithiphyllum foliatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Wapitiphyllum vallatum, 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
2 references- The distribution of rugose corals in Frasnian outcrop sequences of North America2
- Frasnian rugose corals of western Canada, part 1: Chonophyllidae and Kyphophyllidae2
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 Wapitiphyllum vallatum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Wapitiphyllum vallatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itWapitiphyllum through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McLean and Pedder 1984