Coscinium

Coscinium is an extinct genus of prehistoric bryozoans in the family Hexagonellidae. The species C. elegans is from the Paleozoic rocks of the western states and territories.

No picture of Coscinium was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Coscinium itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Coscinium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HexagonellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 174 million years on record.

The record covers at least 464.3 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 283.3 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 24 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 24 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 24 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 24 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 20 of 24 occurrencesPermian475–469 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences469–462 Mya — about 1 occurrence462–456 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences416–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410–403 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences403–397 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences397–390 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–312 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences312–306 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences299–293 Mya — about 8 occurrences293–286 Mya — about 10 occurrences286–280 Mya — about 2 occurrences464.3 Mya290.1 Mya475 Mya280 Mya

24 occurrences of Coscinium on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

24 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

Nordenskioldbreen — 78.53°N, 16.08°ETreskelodden — 77.03°N, 16.21°EIlibeiskaya — 66.85°N, 53.70°EIlibeiskaya — 67.05°N, 52.70°ENerminskaya — 66.85°N, 53.70°ENerminskaya — 67.05°N, 52.70°ECano Grande — 10.50°N, 72.50°WPicos de Europa — 43.26°N, 4.62°WPelskaya — 66.85°N, 53.70°EWordiekammen — 78.45°N, 16.45°E

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The named rock units Coscinium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Coscinium and its relatives

Permian

Where Coscinium and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

121 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Coscinium, 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

7 references

Each of the 24 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

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No picture of Coscinium was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Coscinium itself, so it was not used.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Coscinium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Coscinium 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.

The description on this site

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 itHexagonellidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Keyserling 1846