Chonostrophia

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
- ChonostrophiidaePBDB
- 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 28 million years on record.
The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 372.15 Mya.
18 occurrences of Chonostrophia 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
18 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
4 formations
- Onondaga Formation4
- Floresta-Labateca Formation1
- Esopus Formation · Tristates Group1
- Ban Giang Formation1
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The named rock units Chonostrophia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Chonostrophia and its relatives
DevonianWhere Chonostrophia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
168 taxa- Elita11 sites
- Fenestellidae9 sites
- Gastropoda9 sites
- Schellwienella9 sites
- Phacopidae8 sites
- Pterioida8 sites
- Atrypa7 sites
- Strophomenida7 sites
- Acrospirifer6 sites
- Brachiopoda6 sites
- Cryptonella6 sites
- Cyrtina6 sites
- Devonochonetes6 sites
- Eodevonaria6 sites
- Leptostrophiidae6 sites
- Longispina6 sites
- Mucrospiriferidae6 sites
- Nucleospira6 sites
- Rhynchonellida6 sites
- Strophomena (Strophodonta)6 sites
- Ambocoelia5 sites
- Cypricardinia5 sites
- Bivalvia4 sites
- Chonetes4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Chonostrophia, 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
7 references- Paleoecology and stratigraphy of Devonian sediments in the northern Andes, Colombia: paleogeographic implications [Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Chicago]9
- Stratigraphy of the Onondaga Limestone in Central New York4
- Tong-Dzuy et al., 19881
- Brachiopod community paleoecology, paleobiogeography, and depositional topography of the Devonian Onondaga Limestone and correlative strata in eastern North America1
- Brachiopods of the Lower Devonian Rocks at Highland Mills, New York1
- A Devonian fauna from Colombia1
- The correlation of certain Devonian faunas of Easter and Western Gaspe1
Each of the 18 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 Chonostrophia
- 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 itChonostrophiidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.