Conochitina

Conochitina is an extinct genus of chitinozoans.

No picture of Conochitina was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Conochitina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ConochitinidaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 34 of 156 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 122 of 156 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 156 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 1 occurrence474–472 Mya — about 1 occurrence472–470 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence456–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence454–452 Mya — about 1 occurrence452–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 8 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 3 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 5 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 7 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 5 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 11 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 15 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 15 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 23 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 43 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 3 occurrences428–426 Mya — about 3 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471.3 Mya422.7 Mya478 Mya418 Mya

156 occurrences of Conochitina on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

156 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

33 formations

Jaani — 58.52°N, 24.68°EJaani — 58.62°N, 22.90°EVelise — 58.52°N, 24.68°ESaarde — 58.32°N, 25.50°EEllis Bay — 49.80°N, 64.42°WRumba — 58.54°N, 23.44°EMotol — 50.07°N, 14.33°EMotol — 50.03°N, 14.42°ETernava Suite — 51.82°N, 34.22°ETernava Suite — 48.87°N, 26.53°ECedarburg — 32.30°S, 18.97°EHulderstad — 58.84°N, 24.98°EMoe — 58.84°N, 24.98°ETamsalu — 58.80°N, 22.76°ETamsalu — 58.89°N, 23.46°EDawan — 30.86°N, 110.37°EKorgessaare — 58.84°N, 24.98°ERaikküla — 58.80°N, 22.76°ERaikküla — 58.89°N, 23.46°EKhaastyrka — 67.35°N, 104.04°EKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°ESularp Shale — 55.71°N, 13.32°EGualcamayo — 30.00°S, 69.00°WKopanina — 50.00°N, 14.35°EPozary — 50.00°N, 14.35°EPont-de-Caen — 49.00°N, 1.00°WValle Syncline Silt & Sandstone — 38.00°N, 6.00°WLouredo — 40.00°N, 8.00°WLower Ktaoua — 30.10°N, 6.13°WSularp — 55.71°N, 13.32°E

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The named rock units Conochitina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Conochitina and its relatives

Silurian

Where Conochitina and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

527 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Conochitina, 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

25 references

Each of the 156 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. 13 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

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No picture of Conochitina was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Conochitina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

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

No 3D scan of Conochitina 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

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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. Eisenack 1931