Chonetes

Chonetes is an extinct genus of brachiopods. It ranged from the Late Ordovician to the Middle Jurassic.

Chonetes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChonetinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Chonetidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Chonetidina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Chonetidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 218 million years on record.

The record covers at least 455 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 910 occurrencesSilurian — about 65 of 910 occurrencesDevonian — about 332 of 910 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 379 of 910 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 131 of 910 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 910 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 910 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 910 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 910 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 910 occurrences464–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–434 Mya — about 27 occurrences434–425 Mya — about 28 occurrences425–415 Mya — about 26 occurrences415–405 Mya — about 58 occurrences405–395 Mya — about 34 occurrences395–385 Mya — about 83 occurrences385–375 Mya — about 59 occurrences375–366 Mya — about 30 occurrences366–356 Mya — about 79 occurrences356–346 Mya — about 71 occurrences346–336 Mya — about 45 occurrences336–326 Mya — about 52 occurrences326–316 Mya — about 19 occurrences316–307 Mya — about 140 occurrences307–297 Mya — about 27 occurrences297–287 Mya — about 13 occurrences287–277 Mya — about 22 occurrences277–267 Mya — about 38 occurrences267–257 Mya — about 32 occurrences257–248 Mya — about 23 occurrences238–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–208 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences208–199 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences199–189 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences189–179 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences179–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455 Mya237 Mya464 Mya169 Mya

910 occurrences of Chonetes 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

910 occurrences

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

287 formations

Cherokee Shale — 37.60°N, 94.68°WCherokee Shale — 37.35°N, 94.99°WCherokee Shale — 37.36°N, 94.82°WCherokee Shale — 37.23°N, 95.10°WCherokee Shale — 37.14°N, 95.10°WCherokee Shale — 37.58°N, 94.64°WCherokee Shale — 37.21°N, 94.99°WCherokee Shale — 37.51°N, 94.64°WCherokee Shale — 37.24°N, 94.95°WCherokee Shale — 37.27°N, 94.82°WCherokee Shale — 39.49°N, 94.28°WCherokee Shale — 37.10°N, 94.79°WCherokee Shale — 37.65°N, 94.71°WCherokee Shale — 37.04°N, 95.17°WCherokee Shale — 37.04°N, 95.15°WCabaniss — 37.48°N, 94.61°WCabaniss — 38.02°N, 94.36°WCabaniss — 37.59°N, 89.70°WCabaniss — 38.10°N, 94.36°WCabaniss — 38.28°N, 93.98°WCabaniss — 38.26°N, 93.93°WCabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WCabaniss — 38.64°N, 90.42°WCabaniss — 37.76°N, 94.46°WCabaniss — 38.56°N, 93.57°WCabaniss — 38.04°N, 94.34°WGlen Aubrey — 42.30°N, 76.19°WGlen Aubrey — 42.38°N, 75.58°WGlen Aubrey — 42.31°N, 76.07°WGlen Aubrey — 42.29°N, 75.92°WGlen Aubrey — 42.18°N, 75.54°WGlen Aubrey — 42.11°N, 75.85°WGlen Aubrey — 42.20°N, 75.68°WGlen Aubrey — 42.28°N, 75.70°WGlen Aubrey — 42.17°N, 75.84°WGlen Aubrey — 42.16°N, 75.90°WGlen Aubrey — 42.14°N, 75.96°WGlen Aubrey — 42.26°N, 75.98°WGlen Aubrey — 42.36°N, 76.20°WGlen Aubrey — 42.57°N, 76.13°WGlen Aubrey — 42.37°N, 76.35°WWewoka — 35.04°N, 96.36°WOnondaga — 40.48°N, 78.27°WOnondaga — 39.65°N, 78.76°WOnondaga — 40.48°N, 76.53°WOnondaga — 40.60°N, 77.57°WOnondaga — 40.54°N, 77.70°WOnondaga — 39.26°N, 78.53°WOnondaga — 42.95°N, 76.17°WOnondaga — 42.92°N, 78.25°WOnondaga — 42.78°N, 74.33°WOnondaga — 42.70°N, 74.92°WOnondaga — 42.65°N, 74.08°WOnondaga — 43.00°N, 75.00°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.65°N, 91.73°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.69°N, 91.63°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.45°N, 91.05°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.37°N, 90.90°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.26°N, 90.83°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.49°N, 91.32°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.42°N, 91.39°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.59°N, 91.40°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.67°N, 91.54°WKrebs — 37.85°N, 94.52°WKrebs — 37.56°N, 94.54°WKrebs — 37.56°N, 94.56°WKrebs — 37.87°N, 94.39°WKrebs — 37.79°N, 91.53°WBlack Rock — 51.33°N, 2.74°WSappington — 46.01°N, 112.54°WSappington — 46.21°N, 111.04°WSappington — 45.93°N, 111.32°WSappington — 45.91°N, 111.96°WSappington — 45.78°N, 111.81°WSappington — 46.03°N, 111.84°WSappington — 45.88°N, 110.96°WForaker Limestone — 39.27°N, 96.44°WForaker Limestone — 39.92°N, 95.67°WForaker Limestone — 39.38°N, 96.40°WForaker Limestone — 39.19°N, 96.57°WForaker Limestone — 39.34°N, 96.05°WForaker Limestone — 38.37°N, 96.63°WForaker Limestone — 37.35°N, 96.48°WForaker Limestone — 38.02°N, 96.28°WForaker Limestone — 39.37°N, 95.88°WYukiang — 22.88°N, 108.87°EYukiang — 22.70°N, 109.22°EBlack Rock Limestone — 51.33°N, 2.74°WPilton Shales — 51.08°N, 4.05°WCoyote Butte — 43.95°N, 119.76°WCoyote Butte — 43.92°N, 119.80°WCoyote Butte — 43.95°N, 119.74°WCoyote Butte — 43.98°N, 119.72°WTabberabbera — 37.78°S, 147.38°ETabberabbera — 37.58°S, 147.38°EWaterhouses Limestone — 53.03°N, 1.87°WWaterhouses Limestone — 52.80°N, 2.10°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.17°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.00°WPark City — 42.97°N, 106.78°WPark City — 39.60°N, 110.82°WPark City — 47.06°N, 109.43°WPark City — 44.00°N, 114.00°WPark City — 43.19°N, 109.16°WMia Le — 22.23°N, 106.18°ESauquoit — 43.21°N, 75.46°WSauquoit — 43.13°N, 75.59°WSauquoit — 43.03°N, 75.28°WRose Hill — 39.63°N, 78.29°WRose Hill — 39.65°N, 78.76°WRose Hill — 39.57°N, 78.84°WRose Hill — 37.20°N, 79.95°WSaginaw Bay — 56.92°N, 134.22°WSaginaw Bay — 56.85°N, 134.13°WWargal — 32.48°N, 72.27°EWargal — 32.45°N, 71.95°EWargal — 32.50°N, 72.20°EWargal — 32.74°N, 71.64°EWargal — 32.40°N, 72.25°ECarraun Shale — 54.42°N, 7.86°W

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The named rock units Chonetes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 263 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 102 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chonetes and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Chonetes and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,427 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 745 sites for Chonetes, and this reads 240 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

226 references

Each of the 910 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. 214 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 content2

Picture of Chonetes

Credit
Dwergenpaartje
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itChonetinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fischer de Waldheim 1830