Colpites

No picture of Colpites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Colpites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NaticopsidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Naticopsidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Naticopsidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Naticopsidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Naticopsidae

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.9 Mya to 266.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 11 of 20 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 9 of 20 occurrencesPermian337–335 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences335–332 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences332–330 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences325–323 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 1 occurrence321–318 Mya — about 1 occurrence318–316 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences316–313 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences309–306 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 2 occurrences304–301 Mya — about 1 occurrence301–299 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences292–289 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences285–282 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences280–277 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 1 occurrence273–270 Mya — about 1 occurrence270–268 Mya — about 1 occurrence268–266 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences330.3 Mya274.4 Mya337 Mya266 Mya

20 occurrences of Colpites 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

20 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

14 formations

Amsden — 43.18°N, 109.20°WAmsden — 43.51°N, 107.46°WAmsden — 44.17°N, 106.85°WRoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WCherry Canyon — 31.86°N, 104.82°WHolder — 33.40°N, 105.87°WBird Spring — 36.60°N, 114.79°WPalmarito — 8.02°N, 71.38°WAppanoose — 38.70°N, 90.39°WMagdalena Limestone — 31.84°N, 106.04°WCathedral Mountain — 30.41°N, 103.11°WHueco — 31.84°N, 105.99°WGrindstone Creek — 32.71°N, 98.08°WDanny Bridge — 53.77°N, 1.92°WDennis — 39.11°N, 94.58°WLane Shale — 39.31°N, 94.92°W

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

Colpites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Colpites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

917 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Colpites, 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

10 references

Each of the 20 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 content0

No picture of Colpites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Colpites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Colpites 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.

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

Keep going

What may have been alongside itNaticopsidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Knight 1936