Clionolithes

Clionolithes

Daniel Watrinelle · 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
ClionaidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Clionaidae
Life habit
boringPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Clionaidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 340 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 66 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 34 occurrencesDevonian — about 17 of 34 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 3 of 34 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 34 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 34 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 34 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 34 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 34 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 34 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 34 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 34 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 14 of 34 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 34 occurrences427–414 Mya — about 2 occurrences414–402 Mya — about 6 occurrences402–390 Mya — about 1 occurrence390–378 Mya — about 3 occurrences378–365 Mya — about 3 occurrences365–353 Mya — about 1 occurrence341–329 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences329–316 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–59 Mya — about 12 occurrences413.02 Mya72.2 Mya427 Mya59 Mya

34 occurrences of Clionolithes 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

34 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

11 formations

Jagüel — 38.10°S, 68.39°WMount Ida — 36.77°S, 144.77°EHeath — 46.92°N, 109.09°WHeath — 46.67°N, 109.13°WMcIvor — 34.08°S, 151.02°ESchistes de Beaulieu — 50.84°N, 1.76°ETabberabbera — 37.78°S, 147.39°ETaboumakhloûf — 30.73°N, 4.70°ERedoak Hollow — 34.37°N, 97.34°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 78.65°WMaradana Shale — 33.20°S, 148.68°EGarra — 33.95°S, 148.82°E

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The named rock units Clionolithes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clionolithes and its relatives

Devonian

Where Clionolithes and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

510 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Clionolithes, 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

11 references

Each of the 34 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 Clionolithes

Source
GBIF
Credit
Daniel Watrinelle
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 itClionaidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clark 1908