Conopeum

Conopeum is a genus of marine and brackish water bryozoans belonging to the family Electridae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.

Conopeum

Alison M. Fortunato · CC0 · 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
ElectridaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 59 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 59 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 11 of 59 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 18 of 59 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 59 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 59 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 59 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 59 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 4 occurrences80–76 Mya — about 4 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 4 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 9 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 7 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 4 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–7.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.2–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences100.5 Mya129 ka108 Mya0 Mya

59 occurrences of Conopeum on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

59 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

23 formations

Mesaverde — 41.72°N, 105.94°WMesaverde — 41.53°N, 106.06°WMesaverde — 41.37°N, 106.00°WMesaverde — 41.33°N, 106.04°WMesaverde — 41.73°N, 105.99°WClayton — 31.98°N, 87.22°WClayton — 31.99°N, 87.13°WClayton — 37.18°N, 89.07°WClayton — 34.65°N, 92.39°WClayton — 34.73°N, 88.95°WMoodys Branch — 32.32°N, 90.16°WKincaid — 31.31°N, 96.63°WKincaid — 29.35°N, 99.14°WKincaid — 29.33°N, 99.28°WKincaid — 29.21°N, 99.79°WKincaid — 31.74°N, 96.55°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WMonterey — 33.59°N, 117.71°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPachuta Marl — 31.14°N, 87.94°WYazoo — 31.66°N, 92.90°WFruitland — 36.27°N, 108.26°WDenton — 32.83°N, 97.23°WTalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WRed Bluff — 32.32°N, 90.89°WLangental Beds — 27.40°S, 15.41°EKhari Nadi — 23.40°N, 68.80°EDelmar — 33.16°N, 117.21°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WRoca — 36.83°S, 69.35°WLefipán — 42.68°S, 69.83°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°W

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The named rock units Conopeum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Conopeum and its relatives

Eocene

Where Conopeum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,245 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Conopeum, 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

28 references

Each of the 59 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. 16 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

Media content1

Picture of Conopeum

Credit
Alison M. Fortunato
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Conopeum 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.

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 itElectridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1848