Cornulitidae

Cornulitidae

Olev Vinn · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
CornulitidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Tentaculita

Time the record covers

At least 126 million years on record.

The record covers at least 457.2 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 463.3 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Ordovician — about 136 of 283 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 91 of 283 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 16 of 283 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 40 of 283 occurrencesCarboniferous466–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–456 Mya — about 6 occurrences456–452 Mya — about 35 occurrences452–447 Mya — about 70 occurrences447–442 Mya — about 27 occurrences442–437 Mya — about 10 occurrences437–432 Mya — about 18 occurrences432–427 Mya — about 29 occurrences427–422 Mya — about 27 occurrences422–418 Mya — about 6 occurrences418–413 Mya — about 1 occurrence413–408 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences408–403 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences403–398 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences398–393 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences393–389 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences389–384 Mya — about 3 occurrences384–379 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences379–374 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences374–369 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences369–364 Mya — about 1 occurrence364–359 Mya — about 5 occurrences359–355 Mya — about 1 occurrence355–350 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences350–345 Mya — about 2 occurrences345–340 Mya — about 5 occurrences340–335 Mya — about 4 occurrences335–330 Mya — about 26 occurrences330–325 Mya — about 1 occurrence325–321 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences457.2 Mya330.3 Mya466 Mya321 Mya

283 occurrences of Cornulitidae 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

283 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

113 formations

Bangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WBangor Limestone — 34.59°N, 87.63°WLexington Limestone — 38.22°N, 84.86°WLexington Limestone — 38.34°N, 84.85°WLexington Limestone — 38.35°N, 84.86°WLexington Limestone — 37.90°N, 84.26°WWaynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WWaynesville — 39.42°N, 85.01°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.34°N, 84.95°WWaynesville — 39.48°N, 84.07°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WKope — 39.01°N, 84.45°WKope — 39.06°N, 84.44°WKope — 39.03°N, 84.54°WKope — 38.79°N, 84.21°WKope — 38.68°N, 83.79°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WRochester Shale — 43.20°N, 77.53°WRochester Shale — 43.17°N, 78.68°WRochester Shale — 39.65°N, 78.76°WRochester Shale — 39.57°N, 78.84°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.33°WSlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EWenallt — 51.83°N, 3.58°WEke Beds — 57.17°N, 18.38°EOverton — 52.48°N, 2.63°WHalla Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EStonington — 45.67°N, 86.97°WClays Ferry — 37.88°N, 84.34°WClays Ferry — 37.65°N, 85.07°WSodus — 43.25°N, 76.87°WSodus — 43.24°N, 76.80°WSodus — 43.31°N, 76.58°WHirmuse — 59.26°N, 27.00°EHirmuse — 59.35°N, 26.39°EFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WFairview — 39.01°N, 84.45°WMount Auburn — 39.00°N, 84.00°WMount Auburn — 39.41°N, 84.50°WLiberty — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLiberty — 39.49°N, 84.95°WLiberty — 39.34°N, 84.95°WZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EArnheim — 39.00°N, 84.00°WArnheim — 39.18°N, 84.65°WArnheim — 38.74°N, 85.38°WMartinsburg — 38.51°N, 78.63°WMartinsburg — 40.48°N, 76.53°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.45°N, 91.05°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.37°N, 90.90°WHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHemse Beds — 57.37°N, 18.69°EWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°W

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The named rock units Cornulitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 89 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cornulitidae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cornulitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

2,264 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 262 sites for Cornulitidae, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

84 references

Each of the 283 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. 72 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 Cornulitidae

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Fischer 1962