Corynetis
Corynetis is a genus of archaeopriapulid known from the Chengjiang biota, and a senior synonym of Anningvermis multispinosus.

Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- PriapulidaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Priapulida
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Priapulida
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Priapulida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Priapulida
Time the record covers
At least 1.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 516 Mya to 514.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 506.5 Mya.
13 occurrences of Corynetis 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
13 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
5 formations
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The named rock units Corynetis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Corynetis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Corynetis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
334 taxa- Heliomedusa orienta7 sites
- Cardiodictyon catenulum6 sites
- Kunmingella douvillei6 sites
- Leanchoilia illecebrosa6 sites
- Naraoia6 sites
- Selkirkia sinica6 sites
- Arthropoda5 sites
- Choia5 sites
- Cricocosmia jinningensis5 sites
- Eoglossa chengjiangensis5 sites
- Isoxys5 sites
- Isoxys auritus5 sites
- Lingulellotreta malongensis5 sites
- Mafangscolex sinensis5 sites
- Misszhouia longicaudata5 sites
- Sicyophorus rara5 sites
- Cambrorhytium4 sites
- Crumillospongia4 sites
- Eoredlichia intermediata4 sites
- Halichondrites4 sites
- Hazelia4 sites
- Paraleptomitella4 sites
- Problematica4 sites
- Vetulicola4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Corynetis, 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
8 references- Taphonomy and Palaeoecology of the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota from Eastern Yunnan, China4
- Community palaeoecology of the early Cambrian Maotianshan Shale biota: Ecological dominance of priapulid worms3
- A Cambrian soft-bodied biota after the first Phanerozoic mass extinction1
- The Qingjiang biota - A Burgess Shale-type fossil Lagerstätte from the early Cambrian of South China1
- Diversity and species abundance patterns of the early Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota from China1
- A new priapulid assemblage from the early Cambrian Guanshan fossil Lagerstätte of SW China1
- Spatial variation in the diversity and composition of the Lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Chengjiang Biota, Southwest China1
- Lower Cambrian Burgess Shale-type fossil associations of South China1
Each of the 13 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 Corynetis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jonathan Chen
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Corynetis 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Corynetis”
- 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 itPriapulida through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Luo and Hu 1999