Caninia cornucopiae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CaniniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 335.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 323.4 Mya.
79 occurrences of Caninia cornucopiae on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
79 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
10 formations
- High Tor Limestone Formation40
- Black Rock Limestone Formation22
- Black Rock Formation6
- Feltrim Formation4
- Weaver Beds Formation1
- Foel Formation1
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The named rock units Caninia cornucopiae 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.
Caninia cornucopiae and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Caninia cornucopiae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
219 taxa- Syringopora49 sites
- Rugosa37 sites
- Michelinia35 sites
- Productidae33 sites
- Sychnoelasma hawbankense29 sites
- Fasciculophyllum27 sites
- Rhipidomella michelini27 sites
- Delepinea22 sites
- Palaeosmilia20 sites
- Spiriferida20 sites
- Polygnathus19 sites
- Bryozoa16 sites
- Schellwienella crenistria16 sites
- Cleiothyridina15 sites
- Megachonetes15 sites
- Plicochonetes15 sites
- Cyathoclisia14 sites
- Gnathodus14 sites
- Hindeodus13 sites
- Pseudopolygnathus13 sites
- Straparollus13 sites
- Caninophyllum patulum patulum12 sites
- Spathognathodus10 sites
- Sychnoelasma konincki konincki10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 76 sites for Caninia cornucopiae, 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
12 references- Fossil associations in the High Tor Limestone (Lower Carboniferous) of South Wales40
- The distribution of platform conodonts, corals, and foraminifera from the Black Rock Limestone (late Tournaisian and early Visean) of Tears Point, Gower, south Wales21
- Geology of the Country around Wells and Cheddar (Explanation of One-inch Geological Sheet 280, New Series)7
- A detailed account of the fauna and age of a Waulsortian Reef Knoll Limestone and associated shales, Feltrim, Co., Dublin3
- Mid-Dinantian Waulsortian buildups in the Dublin Basin, Ireland1
- Stratigraphy and sedimentology of Lower Carboniferous (Dinantian) boreholes from west county Meath, Ireland1
- Chadian faunas and flora from Dyserth; depositional environments and palaeogeographic setting of Visean strata in Northeast Wales1
- Some upper Palaeozoic corals from Turkey1
- Rol korallov v biostratigrafii nizhnekamennougolnykh otlozheniy Tatarii [The biostratigraphic significance of corals from the Lower Carboniferous of Tatar]1
- The Yoredale Series of Upper Wensleydale and adjacent parts of North-West Yorkshire1
- The stratigraphy of the Carboniferous rocks of the Weaver Hills District, North Staffordshire1
- Corals from the post-Osage Mississippian of Montana1
Each of the 79 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 content2
Picture of Caninia cornucopiae
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCaninia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Michelin 1840