Coenites

Coenites is an extinct genus of prehistoric corals in the family Coenitidae. C dublinensis occurs in the Columbus Limestone, a mapped bedrock unit consisting primarily of fossiliferous limestone, and it occurs in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia in the United States, and in Ontario, Canada.

Coenites

Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CoenitinaePBDB
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 least 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 439.4 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 351.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 216 occurrencesSilurian — about 62 of 216 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 153 of 216 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 216 occurrencesCarboniferous445–442 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 10 occurrences439–435 Mya — about 4 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 6 occurrences432–429 Mya — about 15 occurrences429–426 Mya — about 11 occurrences426–423 Mya — about 14 occurrences423–420 Mya — about 1 occurrence420–416 Mya — about 5 occurrences416–413 Mya — about 5 occurrences413–410 Mya — about 17 occurrences410–407 Mya — about 7 occurrences407–404 Mya — about 7 occurrences404–401 Mya — about 7 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 4 occurrences398–394 Mya — about 3 occurrences394–391 Mya — about 9 occurrences391–388 Mya — about 12 occurrences388–385 Mya — about 39 occurrences385–382 Mya — about 32 occurrences382–379 Mya — about 2 occurrences379–375 Mya — about 2 occurrences375–372 Mya — about 2 occurrences372–369 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences369–366 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences366–363 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences363–360 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences360–356 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences356–353 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences353–350 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences439.4 Mya358.86 Mya445 Mya350 Mya

216 occurrences of Coenites 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

216 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

79 formations

Dawson Bay — 52.89°N, 101.06°WDawson Bay — 51.60°N, 99.82°WDawson Bay — 51.65°N, 99.81°WDawson Bay — 53.00°N, 101.00°WDawson Bay — 52.80°N, 100.96°WDawson Bay — 52.88°N, 101.05°WDawson Bay — 52.83°N, 100.40°WDawson Bay — 52.75°N, 100.85°WDawson Bay — 52.97°N, 100.57°WDawson Bay — 52.75°N, 100.44°WDawson Bay — 52.08°N, 99.84°WCoopers Creek Limestone — 38.15°S, 146.47°EWinnipegosis — 52.96°N, 100.90°WWinnipegosis — 52.95°N, 100.97°WWinnipegosis — 52.92°N, 100.97°WWinnipegosis — 52.86°N, 100.81°WWinnipegosis — 52.87°N, 100.68°WWinnipegosis — 52.81°N, 100.74°WWinnipegosis — 52.79°N, 100.95°WWinnipegosis — 51.13°N, 98.75°WBoola Beds — 38.15°S, 146.47°EOnondaga — 43.01°N, 78.01°WOnondaga — 42.95°N, 76.17°WOnondaga — 42.78°N, 74.33°WOnondaga — 42.96°N, 78.74°WOnondaga — 42.70°N, 74.92°WPortilla — 42.85°N, 1.84°EPortilla — 42.82°N, 5.22°EWabash — 40.42°N, 85.80°WSlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°ELouisville Limestone — 40.55°N, 84.57°WLouisville Limestone — 38.26°N, 85.63°WHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHemse Beds — 57.37°N, 18.69°ENingqiang — 32.68°N, 105.93°ENingqiang — 32.82°N, 106.28°ENingqiang — 32.67°N, 105.97°ECombe Martin Slates — 51.20°N, 4.03°WTyutyulen — 52.97°N, 57.02°ETyutyulen — 52.82°N, 56.98°ENa Quan — 22.68°N, 106.67°ELo Son — 20.98°N, 106.57°EBan Pap — 21.43°N, 104.12°EQuy Dat — 17.90°N, 105.82°ESafonovski — 54.30°N, 86.23°ESafonovski — 56.13°N, 85.97°EDouro — 72.98°N, 91.66°WDouro — 72.82°N, 92.02°WDouro — 72.59°N, 93.77°WLazhuglung — 34.77°N, 81.31°EMoscow — 42.81°N, 77.90°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.83°WSteinsfjorden — 68.79°N, 14.95°EMuch Wenlock — 52.02°N, 2.57°WMuch Wenlock — 52.00°N, 2.00°WYarrimie — 30.77°S, 150.80°EYarrimie — 30.95°S, 150.87°E

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The named rock units Coenites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 55 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Coenites and its relatives

Devonian

Where Coenites and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1,243 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 143 sites for Coenites, 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

78 references

Each of the 216 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. 66 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 Coenites

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Coenites 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCoenitinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eichwald 1829