Cannopilus
No picture of Cannopilus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cannopilus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DictyochaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Chrysophyceae
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Chrysophyceae
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Chrysophyceae
Time the record covers
At most 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Cannopilus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Cannopilus 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.
Cannopilus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cannopilus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
359 taxa- Actinocyclus3 sites
- Coscinodiscus marginatus3 sites
- Distephanus speculum3 sites
- Navicula3 sites
- Stephanopyxis3 sites
- Actinocyclus ingens2 sites
- Actinoptychus2 sites
- Aetobatus2 sites
- Asteromphalus2 sites
- Biddulphia aurita2 sites
- Carcharodon hastalis2 sites
- Corbisema2 sites
- Coscinodiscus2 sites
- Coscinodiscus curvatulus2 sites
- Coscinodiscus excentricus2 sites
- Coscinodiscus vetustissimus2 sites
- Denticula2 sites
- Diploneis2 sites
- Distephanus crux2 sites
- Galeocerdo2 sites
- Hemiaulus polymorphus2 sites
- Hemipristis serra2 sites
- Kentriodon2 sites
- Mesocena2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cannopilus, 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
3 references- Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of a diatomaceous clay unit in the Miocene Pungo River Formation of Beaufort County, North Carolina7
- Paleontology of the Middle Miocene Los Indios Member of the Rosarito Beach Formation, Northwestern Baja California, Mexico2
- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants1
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
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No picture of Cannopilus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cannopilus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Cannopilus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDictyochaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haeckel 1887