Coccoseris astomata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CoccoserisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Coccoseris astomata on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
- Bad Cache Rapids Formation2
- Second Value Formation · Montoya Group1
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The named rock units Coccoseris astomata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Coccoseris astomata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Coccoseris astomata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Catenipora2 sites
- Cyrtophyllum2 sites
- Grewingkia robusta2 sites
- Nasutimena undulosa2 sites
- <Astraeospongid>1 site
- Amplexopora1 site
- Billingsaria parvituba1 site
- Bumastoides1 site
- Catenipora aequabilis1 site
- Cyclendoceras1 site
- Cyrtogomphoceras1 site
- Diestoceras1 site
- Echinodermata1 site
- Eoleperditia1 site
- Ephippiorthoceras1 site
- Favistina1 site
- Lambeoceras baffinense1 site
- Liospira1 site
- Maclurina manitobensis1 site
- Maclurites ungava1 site
- Otarion1 site
- Plaesiomys iphigenia1 site
- Protrochiscolithus1 site
- Rafinesquina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Coccoseris astomata, 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
2 references- Ordovician megafauna, Melville Peninsula, southeastern District of Franklin2
- Montoya and related colonial corals1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Coccoseris astomata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Coccoseris astomata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Coccoseris astomata 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 itCoccoseris through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Flower 1961