Adeona

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- AdeonidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 31 million years on record.
The record covers at least 34.6 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 36.7 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
6 occurrences of Adeona on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 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
4 formations
- Ototara Limestone Formation2
- Bowden Formation · Coastal Group1
- Myaring Beds Formation · Glenelg Group1
- San Diego Formation1
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The named rock units Adeona has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Adeona and its relatives
EoceneWhere Adeona and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
734 taxa- Cellaria contigua4 sites
- Melicerita angustiloba3 sites
- Reteporella3 sites
- Adeonellopsis obliqua2 sites
- Adeonellopsis symmetrica2 sites
- Aechmella depressa2 sites
- Arachnopusia liversidgei2 sites
- Aspidostoma curvatum2 sites
- Aspidostoma turricula2 sites
- Caleschara denticulata2 sites
- Cellaria bicornis2 sites
- Cellaria myaringensis2 sites
- Cellaria veteripontis2 sites
- Celleporina granum2 sites
- Chiastosella daedala2 sites
- Cucullipora tetrasticha2 sites
- Discopora vultur2 sites
- Foveolaria marwicki2 sites
- Omoiosia maorica2 sites
- Ramphonotus lusorius2 sites
- Schizoporella submersa2 sites
- "Arca" umbonata morantensis1 site
- "Arca" yaquensis berryi1 site
- Abra (Abra)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Adeona, 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
4 references- Fossil cheilostomatous polyzoa from south-west Victoria2
- The Tertiary Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New Zealand2
- The geology and paleontology of the marine Pliocene of San Diego, California. Part 2a, Paleontology1
- Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results1
Each of the 6 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 Adeona
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Adeona 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 itAdeonidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamouroux 1812