Conotheca

Conotheca is a genus of Cambrian hyoliths.

No picture of Conotheca 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 Conotheca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CircothecidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolitha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolitha
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Hyolitha
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hyolitha

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 530.7 Mya to 512.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 506.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 313 of 313 occurrencesCambrian539–538 Mya — about 2 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 4 occurrences537–536 Mya — about 4 occurrences536–535 Mya — about 4 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 4 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 4 occurrences533–532 Mya — about 4 occurrences532–530 Mya — about 7 occurrences530–529 Mya — about 18 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 19 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 19 occurrences527–526 Mya — about 19 occurrences526–525 Mya — about 25 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 29 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 29 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 29 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 18 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 8 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 8 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 8 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 8 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 9 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 10 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 9 occurrences513–511 Mya — about 7 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 6 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 4 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 1 occurrence508–507 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences530.7 Mya512.1 Mya539.4 Mya505.9 Mya

313 occurrences of Conotheca on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

313 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

48 formations

Dengying — 32.98°N, 106.27°EDengying — 32.50°N, 107.00°EDengying — 33.00°N, 107.92°EDengying — 25.48°N, 103.03°EDengying — 26.63°N, 105.85°EDengying — 28.27°N, 106.30°EDengying — 30.73°N, 111.13°EDengying — 30.77°N, 111.12°EDengying — 25.52°N, 103.07°EDengying — 33.67°N, 109.46°EYanjiahe — 30.73°N, 111.08°EYanjiahe — 30.73°N, 111.03°EYanjiahe — 30.78°N, 111.35°EZhujiaqing — 27.93°N, 103.56°EZhujiaqing — 24.67°N, 102.65°EZhujiaqing — 26.28°N, 103.22°EZhujiaqing — 24.73°N, 102.57°EZhujiaqing — 25.52°N, 103.07°EZhujiaqing — 26.38°N, 103.21°EKuanchuanpu — 33.00°N, 106.17°EKuanchuanpu — 32.50°N, 106.92°EKuanchuanpu — 32.94°N, 107.70°EKuanchuanpu — 32.97°N, 106.25°EHuangshandong — 30.83°N, 111.17°EHuangshandong — 30.77°N, 111.13°EBastion — 74.10°N, 23.00°WBastion — 73.52°N, 24.68°WBastion — 72.85°N, 25.03°WBastion — 74.35°N, 22.77°WParara — 34.70°S, 137.71°EParara — 34.73°S, 137.63°EParara — 34.80°S, 137.69°EChulaktau — 43.47°N, 69.87°EChulaktau — 43.62°N, 69.73°EChulaktau — 43.37°N, 70.22°EChulaktau — 43.60°N, 69.33°EChulaktau — 43.47°N, 69.97°EChulaktau — 43.60°N, 69.45°EEmyaksin — 70.72°N, 112.88°EEmyaksin — 70.22°N, 113.70°EEmyaksin — 70.71°N, 112.79°EFosters Point — 45.77°N, 60.29°WPestrotsvet — 57.35°N, 131.20°EPestrotsvet — 57.17°N, 132.00°EPestrotsvet — 58.75°N, 127.00°EPestrotsvet — 60.82°N, 125.32°EPestrotsvet — 71.83°N, 107.00°ETyuser — 62.00°N, 129.67°ETyuser — 71.07°N, 127.43°ETyuser — 71.03°N, 127.48°EBrowns Pond — 42.22°N, 73.73°WMaidiping — 29.53°N, 103.39°EZhujianqing — 24.73°N, 102.57°EKulpara — 34.92°S, 137.80°EKulpara — 34.70°S, 137.71°EKulpara — 34.73°S, 137.63°EWeymouth — 41.95°N, 71.28°WWeymouth — 42.22°N, 70.95°WUpper Krol Phosphorite — 30.50°N, 78.17°ESellick Hill — 35.37°S, 138.38°ETal — 30.35°N, 78.17°ETal — 30.45°N, 78.08°EJiulaodong — 29.53°N, 103.39°EAftenstjernesø — 81.57°N, 42.92°WAftenstjernesø — 81.59°N, 42.23°WMarcou — 43.70°N, 3.01°EAnse Maranda — 46.83°N, 71.09°W

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The named rock units Conotheca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed.

Conotheca and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Conotheca and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

692 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 211 sites for Conotheca, 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

52 references

Each of the 313 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. 40 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 content0

No picture of Conotheca 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 Conotheca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Conotheca 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

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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. Rozanov et al. 1969