Calapoecia anticostiensis

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CalapoeciaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At least 700 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
16 occurrences of Calapoecia anticostiensis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
16 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
12 formations
- Chasm Creek Formation · Churchill River Group3
- Caution Creek Formation · Churchill River Group2
- Portage Chute Formation · Bad Cache Rapids Group1
- Surprise Creek Formation · Bad Cache Rapids Group1
- Amadjuak Formation1
- Shiyanhe Formation1
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The named rock units Calapoecia anticostiensis 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.
Calapoecia anticostiensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Calapoecia anticostiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
161 taxa- Trochonema coxi8 sites
- Lyopora7 sites
- Manipora7 sites
- Lobocorallium6 sites
- Paleofavosites6 sites
- Bighornia patella5 sites
- Catenipora5 sites
- Catenipora robusta5 sites
- Lepidocyclus perlamellosa5 sites
- Megamyonia nitens5 sites
- Palaeophyllum5 sites
- Calapoecia coxi4 sites
- Receptaculites4 sites
- Bighornia3 sites
- Billingsites3 sites
- Charactoceras3 sites
- Cyclendoceras3 sites
- Cyrtogomphoceras3 sites
- Digenuoceras3 sites
- Dinorthis occidentalis3 sites
- Eochonetes3 sites
- Hypsiptycha anticostiensis3 sites
- Illaenus3 sites
- Maclurina manitobensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Calapoecia anticostiensis, 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
9 references- Ordovician paleontology of the Northern Hudson Bay lowland7
- Ordovician cephalopod fauna of Baffin Island2
- Classification and controls of internal banding in Palaeozoic Stromatoporoids and colonial corals1
- Late Ordovician corals from Xichuan, Henan1
- Stratigrafiya i fauna ordovika i silura Chukotskogo poluostrova [Stratigraphy and fauna of the Ordovician and the Silurian of the Chukotsk Peninsula]1
- Biostratigraficheskoye raschleneniye verkhnego ordovika Altaya i Gornoy Shorii po tabulyatam i geliolitidam [Upper Ordovician biostratigraphy of the Altai and Shoriya mountains based on tabulate and heliolitid corals]1
- Upper Ordovician and lower Silurian deposits of the Mount Akdombak area in Chingiz1
- Montoya and related colonial corals1
- Cornwallis and Little Cornwallis Islands, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories1
Each of the 16 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 Calapoecia anticostiensis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itCalapoecia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Billings 1865