Cornuspiridae

Not Cornuspiridae. This is Cornuspira involvens (Reuss, 1850), a relative — both are Cornuspiridae.
Geoff Morgan · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- CornuspiroideaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Miliolina
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Miliolina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Miliolina
- Environment
- hypersaline,marinePBDB, for Miliolina
Time the record covers
At least 351 million years on record.
The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 0 Mya.
1,078 occurrences of Cornuspiridae on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
1,078 occurrences- Carboniferous16%
- Permian39%
- Early Triassic11%
- Middle Triassic12%
- Late Triassic5%
- Early Jurassicunder 1%
- Middle Jurassicunder 1%
- Late Jurassic2%
- Early Cretaceous7%
- Late Cretaceous2%
- Paleoceneunder 1%
- Eoceneunder 1%
- Oligoceneunder 1%
- Mioceneunder 1%
- Plioceneunder 1%
- Pleistocene3%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
130 formations
- Polat Formation · Geyik Dagi Unit Group81
- Wujiaping Formation66
- Oread Limestone Formation · Shawnee Group57
- Callytharra Formation54
- Khachik Formation24
- Anshun Formation23
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The named rock units Cornuspiridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 106 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 348 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cornuspiridae and its relatives
PermianWhere Cornuspiridae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
2,742 taxa- Hemigordius56 sites
- Glomospira54 sites
- Nodosaria51 sites
- Geinitzina47 sites
- Trochammina47 sites
- Globivalvulina44 sites
- Cornuspira43 sites
- Ammodiscus37 sites
- Ammobaculites35 sites
- Planiinvoluta35 sites
- Pachyphloia34 sites
- Ophthalmidium33 sites
- Tetrataxis32 sites
- Trepeilopsis32 sites
- Calcitornella31 sites
- Agathammina30 sites
- Gastropoda30 sites
- Tolypammina29 sites
- Climacammina28 sites
- Endothyra28 sites
- Spiroplectammina27 sites
- Dentalina26 sites
- Hyperammina26 sites
- Bryozoa24 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 655 sites for Cornuspiridae, and this reads 240 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
192 references- Early and Middle Triassic trends in diversity, evenness, and size of foraminifers on a carbonate platform in south China: Implications for tempo and mode of biotic recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction150
- Taxonomic and Paelogeographic Approaches to the Dasyclad Algae in the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian)-Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Peritidal Carbonates of the Fele (YassÝbel) Area (Western Taurides, Turkey)81
- End-Permian mass extinction of foraminifers in the Nanpanjiang Basin, South China67
- Kotlyar et al., 198957
- Foraminifera and their habitats within a cool-water carbonate succession following glaciation, Early Permian (Sakmarian), Western Australia54
- The Biota of the Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) Leavenworth Limestone, Midcontinent Region Part 3: Distribution of Calcareous Foraminifera49
- Permskaya sistema Pribaltiki (fauna i stratigrafiya). Permian deposits of the Baltic region (stratigraphy and fauna)27
- Recovery dynamics of foraminifers and algae following the Permian-Triassic extinction in Qingyan, South China23
- Micropaleontology of the Pennsylvanian Johns Valley shale of the Ouachita Mountains, Oklahoma, and its relationship to the Mississippian Caney shale22
- Non-Fusulinid Foraminifera of the Upper Pennsylvanian Finis Shale, Including the Description of an Enigmatic Taxon20
- Upper Permian and Permian-Triassic boundary in north Iran17
- Middle and Late Permian foraminifers from the Chichibu belt, Takachiho area, Kyushu, Japan: implications for faunal events16
Each of the 1,078 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. 180 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 Cornuspira involvens (Reuss, 1850)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Geoff Morgan
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cornuspiridae 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCornuspiroidea through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schultze 1854