Codonosmilia elegans

Codonosmilia is an extinct genus of stony corals. It is monotypic, containing only the species Conodosmilia elegans.

No picture of Codonosmilia elegans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Codonosmilia elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CodonosmiliaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Rhipidogyridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhipidogyridae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rhipidogyridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rhipidogyridae

Time the record covers

At most 6.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 4 of 4 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168.7 Mya161 Mya

4 occurrences of Codonosmilia elegans on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

4 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

2 formations

Baghamshah — 32.42°N, 57.00°EBaghamshah — 33.00°N, 56.50°EBaghamshah — 33.92°N, 57.33°ETataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°E

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The named rock units Codonosmilia elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Codonosmilia elegans and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Codonosmilia elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Codonosmilia elegans, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Codonosmilia elegans was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Codonosmilia elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Codonosmilia elegans 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.

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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What may have been alongside itCodonosmilia through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koby 1888