Cladochonus

Cladochonus is an extinct genus of tabulate coral that lived in the periods from Devonian to Permian.

Cladochonus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PyrgiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Auloporida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Auloporida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Auloporida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 173 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 214 occurrencesSilurian — about 5 of 214 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 48 of 214 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 130 of 214 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 31 of 214 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 214 occurrences447–440 Mya — about 1 occurrence440–434 Mya — about 3 occurrences434–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences420–414 Mya — about 2 occurrences414–407 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences407–401 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences401–394 Mya — about 4 occurrences394–387 Mya — about 8 occurrences387–381 Mya — about 19 occurrences381–374 Mya — about 1 occurrence374–367 Mya — about 4 occurrences367–361 Mya — about 6 occurrences361–354 Mya — about 7 occurrences354–348 Mya — about 10 occurrences348–341 Mya — about 76 occurrences341–334 Mya — about 25 occurrences334–328 Mya — about 3 occurrences328–321 Mya — about 3 occurrences321–314 Mya — about 4 occurrences314–308 Mya — about 3 occurrences308–301 Mya — about 1 occurrence301–294 Mya — about 7 occurrences294–288 Mya — about 9 occurrences288–281 Mya — about 2 occurrences281–275 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences275–268 Mya — about 4 occurrences268–261 Mya — about 3 occurrences261–255 Mya — about 6 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences432.9 Mya259.857 Mya447 Mya248 Mya

214 occurrences of Cladochonus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

214 occurrences

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

64 formations

Edwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WFort Payne Chert — 36.92°N, 84.96°WFort Payne Chert — 36.54°N, 85.16°WFort Payne Chert — 36.72°N, 85.45°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 78.65°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 78.79°WLudlowville — 42.77°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.73°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.89°N, 76.75°WLudlowville — 42.79°N, 75.56°WBorden — 36.44°N, 88.06°WBingleburra — 32.43°S, 151.57°EBrassfield — 39.48°N, 83.86°WBrassfield — 39.97°N, 84.32°WBrassfield — 37.80°N, 84.09°WBrassfield — 37.71°N, 83.98°WBrassfield — 39.99°N, 84.35°WSalem Limestone — 37.31°N, 85.44°WSalem Limestone — 37.78°N, 85.79°WSalem Limestone — 37.26°N, 85.34°WCopacabana — 16.30°S, 68.49°WHarrodsburg Limestone — 39.33°N, 86.67°WIchinotani — 36.00°N, 137.00°ECallytharra — 25.88°S, 115.50°EBarfield — 25.21°S, 150.22°EBrazer Dolomite — 40.16°N, 110.40°WRamp Creek — 39.33°N, 86.67°WEtroeungt — 51.33°N, 7.05°EMizuyagadani — 36.21°N, 137.51°EKess-Kess — 31.38°N, 4.06°WFort Payne — 36.93°N, 84.97°WFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WOatka — 42.60°N, 74.33°WMarcellus — 42.51°N, 74.05°WMarcellus — 41.97°N, 74.00°WPeawaddy — 25.21°S, 148.78°ENew Providence Shale — 38.50°N, 85.92°W

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The named rock units Cladochonus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cladochonus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cladochonus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,499 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 187 sites for Cladochonus, 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

74 references

Each of the 214 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. 62 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 Cladochonus

Credit
Kansas Geological Survey
Licence
CC BY-SA 1.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cladochonus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. M'Coy 1847