Cunnolites polymorphus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CunnolitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cunnolites
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 61.66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 56 Mya.
34 occurrences of Cunnolites polymorphus 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
34 occurrencesThese 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
- Aruma Formation4
- Zongshan Formation2
- Vallcarga Formation1
- Simsima Formation1
- Hochmoos Formation · Gosau Group1
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The named rock units Cunnolites polymorphus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cunnolites polymorphus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cunnolites polymorphus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
200 taxa- Ostrea4 sites
- Pecten4 sites
- Rennensismilia complanata4 sites
- Aulosmilia aspera3 sites
- Bryozoa3 sites
- Cunnolites scutellum3 sites
- Orbignygyra tenella3 sites
- Orbitoides3 sites
- Trigonia3 sites
- Acrosmilia conica2 sites
- Actinacis martiniana2 sites
- Actinastrea ramosa2 sites
- Aporrhais2 sites
- Astraraea media2 sites
- Brachiopoda2 sites
- Columactinastraea2 sites
- Cunnolites cancellata2 sites
- Cunnolites giganteus2 sites
- Cunnolites sororius profundus2 sites
- Diploctenium affine2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Heterocoenia exigua2 sites
- Heterocoenia verrucosa2 sites
- Hippuritida2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Cunnolites polymorphus, 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
13 references- Paleoecologie des Madreporaires du Cretace superieur dans le Srednogorie de l'Ouest (Bulgarie occidentale) (Paleoecology of Upper Cretaceous scleractinians from the Western Sredna Gora (Western Bulgaria)]8
- Tethyan Cretaceous corals in Yugoslavia5
- Maastrichtian species of the coral genus Cunnolites from Saudi Arabia4
- Solitarne Senonijske korale iz Stranic in z Medvednice [Solitary Senonian corals from Stranice and Mt. Medvednica]3
- Corals of the KT-boundary: Scleractinian corals of the suborders Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina2
- Cretaceous corals from Tibet (China) - stratigraphic and palaeobiogeographic aspects2
- Mesozoic corals of Slovenia2
- Le gisement campanien de Mira (Beira litorale, Portugal): sedimentologie, micropaleontologie, revision de Madreporaires [The Campanian of Mira (Beira, Portugal)): sedimentology, micropaleontology, revision of Scleractinia)]2
- Sind fossil corals and Alcyonaria2
- Palaeoecological implications of Upper Cretaceous solitary corals, United Arab Emirates/Oman Borders1
- Taxonomie und Ontogenie von Korallen der ostalpinen Oberkreide (Hochmoos- und Grabenbachschichten, Gosau Gruppe, Santon)1
- Revisione della fauna Neocretacica della Libia: coralli [Revision of the Upper Cretaceous fauna from Libya: corals]1
Each of the 34 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Cunnolites polymorphus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Cunnolites polymorphus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cunnolites polymorphus 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 itCunnolites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1826)