Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona)

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClathrocoilonaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 372.15 Mya.
42 occurrences of Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona) on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
42 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
23 formations
- Blacourt Formation7
- Brilon Massenkalk Formation5
- Pillara Formation4
- Dewal Formation · Nawar Group3
- Lazhuglung Formation3
- Southesk Formation2
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The named rock units Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona) and its relatives
DevonianWhere Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona) and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
385 taxa- Stachyodes14 sites
- Thamnopora13 sites
- Actinostroma12 sites
- Alveolites12 sites
- Stromatopora12 sites
- Hermatostroma11 sites
- Stromatoporella11 sites
- Crinoidea10 sites
- Trupetostroma10 sites
- Amphipora8 sites
- Hexagonaria8 sites
- Aulopora7 sites
- Clathrocoilona obliterata7 sites
- Stromatopora huepschii7 sites
- Athyris6 sites
- Syringopora6 sites
- Actinostroma stellulatum maureri5 sites
- Allonema5 sites
- Gastropoda5 sites
- Macgeea5 sites
- Ostracoda5 sites
- Thamnophyllum5 sites
- Acanthophyllum4 sites
- Anostylostroma4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona), 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
18 references- Phénomènes récifaux dans le Dévonien d'Afghanistan (Montagnes Centrales) - Analyse et systématique des Stromatopores6
- Stromatopores du Givetien de Ferques (Boulonnais, France) [Givetian stromatoporoids from Ferques (Boulonnais, France)]6
- Der Massenkalk (Devon) nördlich von Brilon (Sauerland) [The Devonian Massenkalk north of Brilon (Sauerland)]5
- Middle Devonian (Givetian) coral-stromatoporoid patch reefs from the Lazhuglung Formation, Xizang (Tibet) and their palaeoecological and palaeogeographical implications3
- Palaeoecology of a Late Devonian back reef: Canning Basin, Western Australia3
- Stromatopores du Givetian et du Frasnian de Ferques (Boulonnais-France)3
- The initial phase of the Hönne Valley Reef at Binolen (northern Rhenish Massif, Middle Devonian)2
- Die Fossilführung des Mitteldevons im Raum Attendorn-Olpe (West-Sauerland; Rechtsrheinisches Schiefergebirge) [Middle Devonian fossils of the Attendorn-Olpe area (western Sauerland; Rhenish Massif]2
- Paleoecology of upper Eifelian and lower Givetian coral limestones in the northwestern Sauerland (Devonian; Rhenish Massif)2
- Devonian stromatoporoids from the Canadian Rocky Mountains2
- The Jiwozhai patch reef: A palaeobiodiversity hotspot in middle Givetian (Devonian) of South China1
- Stromatoporoids from the latest reefal episode in the Devonian (late Frasnian) of the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain)1
Each of the 42 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. 6 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 Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Clathrocoilona (Clathrocoilona) 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 itClathrocoilona through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yavorsky 1931