Coscinopora infundibuliformis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CoscinoporaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.
25 occurrences of Coscinopora infundibuliformis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
25 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
4 formations
- White Limestone Formation4
- Upper Chalk Formation · Chalk Group2
- Ilsenburg Formation1
- Sewerby Rocks Formation1
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The named rock units Coscinopora infundibuliformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Coscinopora infundibuliformis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Coscinopora infundibuliformis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
278 taxa- Coeloscyphia racemosa6 sites
- Sporadoscinia venosa6 sites
- Aphrocallistes cylindrodactylus5 sites
- Jereica polystoma5 sites
- Leptophragma micropora5 sites
- Leptophragma murchisoni5 sites
- Tremabolites megastoma5 sites
- Astrocladia subramosa4 sites
- Aulaxinia sulcifera4 sites
- Chonella tenuis4 sites
- Coeloptychium deciminum4 sites
- Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri4 sites
- Laocoetis fittoni4 sites
- Leiochonia cryptoporosa4 sites
- Periphragella plicata4 sites
- Phymatella bulbosa4 sites
- Polyopesia angustata4 sites
- Rhizopoterion4 sites
- Seliscothon4 sites
- Seliscothon mantelli4 sites
- Spirolophia tortuosa4 sites
- Sporadoscinia micrommata4 sites
- Ventriculites radiatus4 sites
- Verruculina seriatopora4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Coscinopora infundibuliformis, 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
9 references- Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Crétacé supérieur du nord de la France6
- Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 2 Triaxonia (Hexactinellida) [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 2 Triaxonia (Hexactinellida)]5
- Remarks on the Upper Cretaceous Hexactinellida of County Antrim: Part II4
- Hexactinellid sponges from the Santonian deposits of the Krakow area (southern Poland)3
- Hexactinellid faunas in the chalk of England and Ireland3
- Die Spongien der Ilsenburg-Entwicklung (Oberes Unter-Campan) der Subherzynen Kreidemulde [Sponges of the Ilsenburg Formation (Upper Lower Campanian) of the Subhercynian Cretaceous Basin1
- Etude paleontologique de la Thierache et du Marlois (NE du Bassin de Paris): Spongiaires du Turonien superieur et du Senonien inferieur1
- Remarques sur les spongiaires siliceux de la craie de la region de Dieppe (Seine-Maritime) [Siliceous sponges from chalk in the Dieppe area (Seine-Maritime)]1
- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)1
Each of the 25 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 Coscinopora infundibuliformis
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No 3D scan of Coscinopora infundibuliformis 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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What may have been alongside itCoscinopora through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goldfuss 1826