Colaptomena

Colaptomena

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RafinesquininaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rafinesquinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461.1 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 151 of 151 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 151 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 1 occurrence471–470 Mya — about 3 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 3 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 3 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 4 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 4 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 4 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 4 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 4 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 4 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 4 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 19 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 19 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 19 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 19 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 7 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 7 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 4 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 3 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 3 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–449 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–444 Mya — about 2 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences461.1 Mya445.2 Mya471.9 Mya442.5 Mya

151 occurrences of Colaptomena 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

151 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

44 formations

Crown Point — 44.87°N, 73.48°WCrown Point — 44.58°N, 73.53°WCrown Point — 44.61°N, 73.41°WCrown Point — 43.95°N, 73.44°WFfairfach Flags and Grits — 52.00°N, 4.00°WFlags and Grits — 52.00°N, 4.00°WCwm Rhiwarth — 53.00°N, 3.00°WFfairfach Ashes and Lavas — 52.00°N, 4.00°WBenbolt — 35.91°N, 84.09°WBenbolt — 36.19°N, 83.93°WBenbolt — 36.73°N, 82.70°WAllt Ddu — 52.90°N, 3.58°WFfairfach Pebbly Sands — 52.00°N, 4.00°WCopenhagen — 38.82°N, 116.50°WCopenhagen — 39.23°N, 116.41°WTramore Limestone — 52.15°N, 7.16°WTramore Limestone — 52.18°N, 7.14°WEsbataottine — 62.00°N, 127.00°WEsbataottine — 61.63°N, 125.73°WEsbataottine — 61.63°N, 125.75°WAntelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.66°WAntelope Valley — 37.12°N, 116.50°WKuldiga — 57.22°N, 21.60°ELenoir — 35.96°N, 83.92°WLenoir — 35.72°N, 83.65°WGelli-Grin — 53.00°N, 4.00°WTelsitna — 63.91°N, 153.68°WNavas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WDay Point — 44.61°N, 73.41°WGaer Fawr — 52.71°N, 3.25°WHoar Edge Grit — 52.47°N, 2.84°WHoar Edge Grit — 52.48°N, 2.88°WWhistle Creek — 37.67°N, 78.78°WWhistle Creek — 37.81°N, 79.52°WPen-y-planeau Siltstone — 53.00°N, 3.00°WSwch Gorge Tuff — 53.00°N, 3.00°WAllt-Ddu Mudstones — 53.00°N, 4.00°W

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The named rock units Colaptomena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Colaptomena and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Colaptomena and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

747 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 145 sites for Colaptomena, 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

32 references

Each of the 151 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. 20 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 Colaptomena

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1956