Cheilotrypa

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- FistuliporidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Fistuliporidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fistuliporidae
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Fistuliporidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 126 million years on record.
The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 450.5 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
50 occurrences of Cheilotrypa 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
50 occurrences- Ordovician2%
- Silurian16%
- Devonian2%
- Carboniferous80%
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
16 formations
- Edwardsville Formation27
- Carwood Formation · Borden Group3
- Joslin Hill Formation2
- Locust Point Formation · Borden Group2
- Lockport Formation1
- Rochester Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Cheilotrypa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cheilotrypa and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Cheilotrypa and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
736 taxa- Fenestella28 sites
- Platyceras24 sites
- Fistulipora21 sites
- Platycrinites20 sites
- Barycrinus19 sites
- Cystodictya18 sites
- Rhombopora18 sites
- Crinoidea17 sites
- Cyathocrinites17 sites
- Penniretepora17 sites
- Cladochonus beecheri15 sites
- Inadunata15 sites
- Synbathocrinus15 sites
- Echinoidea14 sites
- Halysiocrinus14 sites
- Thamniscus14 sites
- Thuramminoides14 sites
- Tolypammina14 sites
- Amplexizaphrentis13 sites
- Bryozoa13 sites
- Camerata13 sites
- Cladochonus13 sites
- Rugosochonetes13 sites
- Dielasma12 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Cheilotrypa, 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
19 references- Community Organization, Paleontology, and Sedimentology of the Lower Mississippian Borden Delta Platform (Edwardsville Formation, Southern Indiana)25
- Fossil communities of the Borden (Mississippi) delta in Indiana and northern Kentucky3
- Fossil communities of the Borden (Mississippian) delta in Indiana and northern Kentucky3
- Uppermost Clinton (Middle Silurian) stratigraphy and petrology, east-central New York3
- Carboniferous reef succession of the Panthalassan open-ocean setting: Example from Omi Limestone, Central Japan2
- Bryozoan fauna from the Reynales Formation (lower Silurian, Aeronian) of New York, USA1
- Стратиграфія ордовику Придністров’я (Ordovic Stratigraphy of Transnistria) (= Ordovic Stratigraphy of Transdniestria)1
- New Lower Carboniferous Bryozoans from Mongolia1
- Lichenaliid-Fistuliporoid crust-mounds (Silurian, New York-Ontario), typical early Paleozoic bryozoan reefs1
- Geology of the Eastern Flank of the Little Belt Mountains with emphasis on Carbonate Buildup; Judith Basin County, Montana1
- Ecologic stability of the dysaerobic biofacies during the Late Paleozoic1
- Paleoecology and Sedimentology of the Rockford Limestone and Upper New Albany Shale (Lower Mississippian) in southern Indiana1
Each of the 50 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. 7 further references are 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
Media content1

Picture of Cheilotrypa
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFistuliporidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1884