Conchicolites

Searched as Conchicolites meskai. The Paleobiology Database treats Conchicolites as the accepted name.

Conchicolites is a fossil genus of cornulitid tubeworms. Their shells lack vesicular wall structure and have a smooth lumen. They are externally covered with transverse ridges. Some species have spines. They usually occur as encrusters on various shelly fossils. Their fossils are known from the Late Ordovician to the Devonian.

Conchicolites

Olev Vinn · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
CornulitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cornulitidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cornulitidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cornulitidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Tentaculita

Time the record covers

At most 21 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 463.3 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 4 of 4 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 4 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences463.8 Mya442.6 Mya

4 occurrences of Conchicolites on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

3 formations

Liben — 50.00°N, 14.00°EZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.00°E

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

Conchicolites and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Conchicolites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

442 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Conchicolites, 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

1 reference

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 content1

Picture of Conchicolites

Credit
Olev Vinn
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Conchicolites 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 itCornulitidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nicholson 1872