Caninia torquia

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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 2.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 306 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
10 occurrences of Caninia torquia 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
10 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
5 formations
- Honaker Trail Formation4
- Pottawatomie Formation2
- Vanport Formation · Allegheny Group1
- Graham Formation · Cisco Group1
- Douglas Formation1
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The named rock units Caninia torquia 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 torquia and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Caninia torquia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
134 taxa- Archaeocidaris5 sites
- Composita subtilita5 sites
- Lophophyllidium profundum5 sites
- Parajuresania nebrascensis5 sites
- Punctospirifer kentuckensis5 sites
- Bryozoa4 sites
- Derbyia4 sites
- Dictyoclostus semireticulatus4 sites
- Echinoconchus4 sites
- Echinoconchus punctatus4 sites
- Hustedia mormoni4 sites
- Neochonetes granulifer4 sites
- Neospirifer cameratus4 sites
- Reticulatia americana4 sites
- Beecheria bovidens3 sites
- Composita argentea3 sites
- Condrathyris perplexa3 sites
- Cystodictya inequimarginata3 sites
- Derbya bennetti3 sites
- Derbyia crassa3 sites
- Eomarginifera longispinus3 sites
- Fistulipora nodulifera3 sites
- Neospirifer kansasensis3 sites
- Penniretepora3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Caninia torquia, 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
5 references- Paleoecology and paleoenvironment of the upper Honaker Trail Formation near Moab, Utah4
- Coal Measures faunal studies. I.3
- The surficial geology, paleontology, and paleoecology of the Finis Shale (Pennsylvanian, Lower Virgilian) in Jack County, Texas1
- Early Pennsylvanian History of Ely Basin, Nevada1
- A preliminary list of the fauna of the Allegheny and Conemaugh series in western Pennsylvania1
Each of the 10 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 Caninia torquia
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Caninia torquia 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 itCaninia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Owen 1852)