Chonophyllum

Chonophyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArachnophyllidaePBDB
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 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 23 occurrencesSilurian — about 19 of 23 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 4 of 23 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 23 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences439–436 Mya — about 1 occurrence436–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence433–430 Mya — about 4 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 4 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 4 occurrences424–421 Mya — about 2 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences392–389 Mya — about 1 occurrence389–386 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences386–383 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences381–378 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences378–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372–369 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences369–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432.9 Mya382.31 Mya445 Mya357 Mya

23 occurrences of Chonophyllum on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

23 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

11 formations

Vaughn Gulch — 36.82°N, 118.08°WVaughn Gulch — 36.90°N, 118.07°WRead Bay — 74.84°N, 93.51°WRead Bay — 74.84°N, 93.43°WTakche — 32.37°N, 77.62°ETakche — 32.03°N, 78.00°EOnondaga — 42.96°N, 78.74°WJupiter — 49.50°N, 63.00°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WChicotte — 49.40°N, 63.60°WManchap — 31.82°N, 78.58°EBaruun-Urt — 46.67°N, 113.27°EChokusu — 49.13°N, 88.37°ESacramento — 40.74°N, 122.48°W

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The named rock units Chonophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chonophyllum and its relatives

Silurian

Where Chonophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

251 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Chonophyllum, 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

Each of the 23 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 Chonophyllum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Chonophyllum 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850