Coelocaulus decipiens
No picture of Coelocaulus decipiens was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Coelocaulus decipiens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CoelocaulusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Murchisonioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Murchisonioidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Murchisonioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At most 2.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 410.62 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Coelocaulus decipiens 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Coelocaulus decipiens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Coelocaulus decipiens and its relatives
DevonianWhere Coelocaulus decipiens and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Agniesella aratula1 site
- Alaionema laudabilis1 site
- Aulacostrepsis simplex1 site
- Australonema guillieri1 site
- Barocospira fractus1 site
- Bicarina coluber1 site
- Bohemicardia bohemica1 site
- Boiotremus fortis1 site
- Boiotremus insignis1 site
- Calloconus coronata1 site
- Champernownia champernowni1 site
- Collina whidbornei1 site
- Cyclonema laudabile1 site
- Decorochilina capillosa1 site
- Decorochilina crassior1 site
- Decorochilina evoluta1 site
- Decorochilina recticosta1 site
- Decorochilina rectistriata1 site
- Decorochilina whidbornei1 site
- Diplozone innocens1 site
- Epiptychia potens1 site
- Episfaxis complacens1 site
- Goniotremus insectus1 site
- Goniotremus polygonus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Coelocaulus decipiens, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Coelocaulus decipiens was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Coelocaulus decipiens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Coelocaulus decipiens was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itCoelocaulus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Perner 1907)