Cladochonus beecheri

No picture of Cladochonus beecheri was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cladochonus beecheri itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cladochonus beecheri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CladochonusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Auloporida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Auloporida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Auloporida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 68 million years on record.

The record covers at least 342.9 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 351.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 27 of 28 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 28 occurrencesPermian354–351 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences351–348 Mya — about 1 occurrence348–345 Mya — about 7 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 10 occurrences342–338 Mya — about 7 occurrences338–335 Mya — about 2 occurrences335–332 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences275–272 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences272–269 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences269–266 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences266–263 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342.9 Mya274.4 Mya354 Mya263 Mya

28 occurrences of Cladochonus beecheri 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

28 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

6 formations

Edwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WSalem Limestone — 37.31°N, 85.44°WSalem Limestone — 37.78°N, 85.79°WSalem Limestone — 37.26°N, 85.34°WFort Payne Chert — 36.92°N, 84.96°WFort Payne Chert — 36.72°N, 85.45°WHarrodsburg Limestone — 39.33°N, 86.67°WRamp Creek — 39.33°N, 86.67°WFort Payne — 36.93°N, 84.97°W

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The named rock units Cladochonus beecheri 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.

Cladochonus beecheri and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cladochonus beecheri and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

287 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Cladochonus beecheri, 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

7 references

Each of the 28 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 content0

No picture of Cladochonus beecheri was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cladochonus beecheri itself, so it was not used.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cladochonus beecheri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cladochonus beecheri 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Grabau 1899)