Learning Center What is a mineral?The most common minerals on earth Information for Educators Mindat Articles The Elements The Rock H. Currier Digital Library Geologic Time

Minerals by Properties Minerals by Chemistry Advanced Locality Search Random Mineral Random Locality Search by minID Localities Near Me Search Articles Search Glossary More Search Options

The Mindat Manual Add a New Photo Rate Photos Locality Edit Report Coordinate Completion Report Add Glossary Item

Mining Companies Statistics Users Mineral Museums Clubs & Organizations Mineral Shows & Events The Mindat Directory Device Settings The Mineral Quiz

Photo Search Photo Galleries Search by Color New Photos Today New Photos Yesterday Members' Photo Galleries Past Photo of the Day Gallery Photography

BETA TEST - Fossil data and pages are very much experimental and under development. Please report any problems

Cladophyllia ✝

Photos

Photo Gallery

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4880206	https://www.gbif.org/species/4880206
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	6250	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=6250

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Faviidae : Cladophyllia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Amphiastreidae : Cladophyllia

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
phylum	Cnidaria	Hatschek 1888
class	Anthozoa	Ehrenberg 1834
subclass	Zoantharia	de Blainville 1830
order	Scleractinia	Bourne 1900
suborder	Pachythecaliina	Eliasova 1976
family	Amphiastreidae	Ogilvie 1896
genus	Cladophyllia	Milne-Edwards & Haime 1851

Scientific Name

Cladophyllia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1851

Name Published In

Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 5

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Cladophyllia	genus	belongs to Cladophylliidae	stated with evidence	Morycowa and Roniewicz, 1990
Cladophyllia	genus	belongs to Scleractinia	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Cladophyllia	genus	belongs to Stylinidae	stated without evidence	Götz et al., 2005

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

190 - 183 Ma
Early Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

61.6 - 59.2 Ma
Paleocene

Environment

marine (based on Scleractinia)

Motility

stationary, attached (based on Scleractinia)

Vision

blind (based on Anthozoa)

Diet

microcarnivore, photosymbiotic (based on Scleractinia)

Reproduction

alternating, asexual, dispersal=water,planktonic (based on Scleractinia)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Scleractinia)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cladophyllia babeana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		18	172 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Cladophyllia babeauana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	170 Ma Middle Jurassic	170 Ma Middle Jurassic
Cladophyllia choffati ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	170 Ma Middle Jurassic	170 Ma Middle Jurassic
Cladophyllia clemencia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	140 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Cladophyllia conybearei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	161 Ma Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Cladophyllia conybeari ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	161 Ma Jurassic	161 Ma Jurassic
Cladophyllia corallina ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	164 Ma Middle Jurassic	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Cladophyllia dichotoma ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		19	176 Ma Early Jurassic	140 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Cladophyllia dresnayi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	190 Ma Early Jurassic	190 Ma Early Jurassic
Cladophyllia excelsa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	161 Ma Jurassic	151 Ma Late Jurassic
Cladophyllia furcifera ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Cladophyllia humberti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cladophyllia mexicana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Cladophyllia minor ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Cladophyllia miroi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Cladophyllia morondavensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Cladophyllia picteti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	161 Ma Jurassic	152 Ma Late Jurassic
Cladophyllia ramea ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	161 Ma Jurassic	161 Ma Jurassic
Cladophyllia rollieri ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		14	174 Ma Middle Jurassic	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Cladophyllia skuviensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	129 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Cladophyllia stewartae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Cladophyllia tenuis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	170 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Cladophyllia thailandensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	176 Ma Early Jurassic	176 Ma Early Jurassic
Eunomia babeana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Lithodendron dichotomum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pleurophyllia skuviensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Schizosmilia corallina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Schizosmilia excelsa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Schizosmilia rollieri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Stylosmilia dresnayi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1851	Cladophyllia Milne-Edwards and Haime
1888	Schizosmilia Koby
1976	Schizosmilia Roniewicz
1990	Cladophyllia Morycowa and Roniewicz
1991	Schizosmilia Prinz
2002	Cladophyllia Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Schizosmilia Sepkoski, Jr.
2005	Cladophyllia Götz et al.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Roniewicz E. (1976) Les scléractiniaires du Jurassique supérieur de la Dobrogea centrale, Roumanie, Palaeontologia Polonica 34, 17-121

Morycowa E., Roniewicz E. (1990) Revision of the genus Cladophyllia and description of Apocladophyllia gen. n. (Cladophylliidae fam. n., Scleractinia), Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 35 3-4, 165-190

Prinz P. (1991) Mesozoische Korallen aus Nordchile, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 216, 147-209

Götz S., Löser H., et al (2005) Reef development on a deepening platform: two Early Cretaceous coralgal patch reefs (Cati, Llacova Formation, eastern Spain) compared, Cretaceous Research 26, 864-881

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 5 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

GBIF/National Museum of Natural History: NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Collections - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

Quick NavTop Fossil Distribution Subtaxa Synonymy List References

Mindat.org is an outreach project of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Copyright © mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy 1993-2024, except where stated. Most political location boundaries are © OpenStreetMap contributors. Mindat.org relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph.
Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Contact Us / DMCA issues - Report a bug/vulnerability Current server date and time: April 27, 2024 07:02:31

Go to top of page