Coryphostoma

Coryphostoma

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BolivinitidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rotaliina
Environment
outer shelf,marinePBDB, for Rotaliina

Time the record covers

At least 88 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 150 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 135 of 150 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 150 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 150 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 150 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 150 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 150 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 150 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–72 Mya — about 6 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 72 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 53 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences52–48 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–24 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.0–622 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93.9 Mya5.333 Mya102 Mya622 ka

150 occurrences of Coryphostoma on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

150 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

3 formations

El Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°EAbu Qada — 28.80°N, 34.48°ERaha — 28.80°N, 34.48°E

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The named rock units Coryphostoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Coryphostoma and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Coryphostoma and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

122 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 63 sites for Coryphostoma, 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

Each of the 150 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 Coryphostoma

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 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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What may have been alongside itBolivinitidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman 1936