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Flabellidae

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Flabellum sp.

Lake Nacogdoches spillway, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA

Flabellum sp.

Lake Nacogdoches spillway, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA

Flabellum sp.

Lake Nacogdoches spillway, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA

Description

Flabellidae is a family of marine corals. It consists of the following genera:

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flabellidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	8194	https://www.gbif.org/species/8194
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	86603	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=86603

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Flabellidae

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	Caryophylliina
superfamily	Flabellicae	Bourne 1905
family	Flabellidae	Bourne 1905

Scientific Name

Flabellidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Flabellidae	family	belongs to Flabellicae	stated with evidence	Wells, 1956

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

103

Extant Size (PBDB)

14 (14%)

First Recorded Appearance

145 - 133 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

marine

Motility

stationary, attached

Vision

blind (based on Anthozoa)

Diet

microcarnivore

Reproduction

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

Ecospace Comments

microcarnivor

Taphonomy

aragonite

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J.O. Chiesa, S.G. Parma, and HH Camacho. 1995. Observaciones estratigraficas en el Paleogeno del noroeste de la Provincia de Santa Cruz (Republica Argentina). Parte II: Invertebrados marinos de la Formacion El Chacy (Eoceno), Provincia de Santa Cruz, Argentina. Systematica y bioestratigrafia. Monografias de la Acadamia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas Y Naturales 11:17-68

Common Name(s)

センスガイ

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flabellidae

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Adkinsella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Blastotrochus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	48.6 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Conosmilia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	37.2 Ma Eocene	19.0 Ma Miocene
Cycloflabellum ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Falcatoflabellum genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Flabellum genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		627	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Gardineria genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Javania genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	37.2 Ma Eocene	0 Ma Extant
Monomyces genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Periplacotrochus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		15	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	16.0 Ma Miocene
Placotrochides genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Placotrochus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	145 Ma Late Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Polymyces genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Rhizotrochus genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Tortoflabellum ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		24	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	11.6 Ma Miocene
Truncatoflabellum genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1905	Flabellidae Bourne
1956	Flabellidae Wells

References

Chiesa J.O., Parma S.G., et al (1995) Observaciones estratigraficas en el Paleogeno del noroeste de la Provincia de Santa Cruz (Republica Argentina). Parte II: Invertebrados marinos de la Formacion El Chacy (Eoceno), Provincia de Santa Cruz, Argentina. Systematica y bioestratigrafia, Monografias de la Acadamia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas Y Naturales 11, 17-68

Wells J. W. (1956) Scleractinia, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology F, 328-444

Cairns, Stephen D., 1999: Species richness of recent Scleractinia. Atoll Research Bulletin, no. 59. 1-46. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Kuhlmann, Dietrich H. H., 1984: null. Living coral reefs of the world.. 185. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Cairns, S.D., 1989. A revision of the ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Philippine Islands and adjacent waters, Part 1: Fungiacyathidae, Micrabaciidae, Turbinoliinae, Guyniidae, and Flabellidae. Smith. Cont. Zool. 486: 136 pp., 42 pls., 3 figs. - via World Register of Marine Species

Cairns, S.D., Hoeksema, B.W., and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 109-110 - via World Register of Marine Species

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - 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!

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