Corwenia

Corwenia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AulophyllidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 15 of 16 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 16 occurrencesPermian348–345 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences345–343 Mya — about 1 occurrence343–340 Mya — about 1 occurrence340–337 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences337–334 Mya — about 1 occurrence334–331 Mya — about 2 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences328–325 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences325–323 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences323–320 Mya — about 2 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 2 occurrences317–314 Mya — about 1 occurrence314–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences277–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274–271 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences271–268 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences339.9 Mya274.4 Mya348 Mya263 Mya

16 occurrences of Corwenia on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

16 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

8 formations

Idmarrach — 33.53°N, 5.39°WIdmarrach — 33.44°N, 5.22°WTirhela — 33.53°N, 5.39°WTirhela — 33.44°N, 5.23°WBaird — 40.95°N, 122.27°WMurphy Road — 45.01°N, 64.13°WWaterhouses Limestone — 52.80°N, 2.10°WSimonstone Limestone IV — 54.30°N, 2.15°WTizra — 33.53°N, 5.39°WTirela — 33.44°N, 5.23°W

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The named rock units Corwenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Corwenia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Corwenia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

189 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Corwenia, 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

10 references

Each of the 16 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. 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 Corwenia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Corwenia 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.

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. Smith and Ryder 1926