Chonetidae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChonetoideaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 218 million years on record.
The record covers at least 455 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 174.7 Mya.
2,064 occurrences of Chonetidae 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
2,064 occurrences- Ordovicianunder 1%
- Silurian4%
- Devonian71%
- Carboniferous19%
- Permian7%
- Early Triassicunder 1%
- Late Triassicunder 1%
- Early Jurassicunder 1%
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
388 formations
- Moscow Formation · Hamilton Group217
- Ludlowville Formation · Hamilton Group154
- Geneseo Formation · Genesee Group97
- Silica Formation · Traverse Group86
- Skaneateles Formation · Hamilton Group73
- Tully Formation · Tully Group66
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The named rock units Chonetidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 364 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 193 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Chonetidae and its relatives
DevonianWhere Chonetidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
1,477 taxa- Chonetes125 sites
- Crinoidea61 sites
- Spirifer60 sites
- Camarotoechia53 sites
- Bryozoa34 sites
- Syringothyris34 sites
- Fenestella31 sites
- Chonetes mesoloba30 sites
- Crurithyris planoconvexa30 sites
- Mesolobus mesolobus decipiens30 sites
- Desmoinesia muricatina29 sites
- Rhipidomella28 sites
- Schuchertella28 sites
- Composita subtilita26 sites
- Echinoidea26 sites
- Lingula24 sites
- Dictyoclostus23 sites
- Neospirifer dunbari23 sites
- Orbiculoidea22 sites
- Schizophoria22 sites
- Euphemites carbonarius21 sites
- Palaeoneilo21 sites
- Ambocoelia20 sites
- Ammodiscus20 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 1,392 sites for Chonetidae, and this reads 240 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
321 references- The Dynamics of Rapid, Asynchronous Biotic Turnover in the Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin of New York134
- Relative taxonomic and ecological stability in Devonian marine faunas of New York State: a test of coordinated stasis93
- The classification and distribution of the Hamilton and Chemung series of central and eastern New York68
- Work with Thayer collections, Yale Peabody Accession 7112, published, in part, "New perspectives on transitions between ecological-evolutionary subunits in the "type interval" for coordinated stasis", James J Zambito IV, Carlton E Brett, Gordon C Baird, Sarah E Kolbe, Arnold I Miller; Paleobiology67
- Pennsylvanian Invertebrate Faunas of Southeastern Kansas61
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Mahantango Formation in south-central Pennsylvania55
- Desmoinesian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from southwest Missouri55
- Quantitative Analysis of Paleocommunities in the Lower Part of the Hamilton Group near Cazenovia, New York51
- Strata and megafossils of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation46
- Faunal and Lithologic Cyclicity in the Centerfield Member (Middle Devonian: Hamilton Group) of Western New York: A Reinterpretation of Depositional History44
- Community paleoecological study of the Silica Shale equivalent of northeastern Indiana40
- Testing for faunal stability across a regional biotic transition: quantifying stasis and variation among recurring coral-rich biofacies in the Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin38
Each of the 2,064 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. 309 further references are not listed. 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 Chonetidae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Dwergenpaartje
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Chonetidae 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChonetoidea through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bronn 1862