Conopeum damicornis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ConopeumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Conopeum damicornis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
8 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
- Kincaid Formation · Midway Group5
- Clayton Formation · Midway Group3
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The named rock units Conopeum damicornis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Conopeum damicornis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Conopeum damicornis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Acipenseridae1 site
- Bullata semen1 site
- Callianassa mortoni1 site
- Calyptraea1 site
- Carcharias cuspidatus1 site
- cf. Tornatellaea cretacea appressa1 site
- Clavipholas1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Cylichna1 site
- Eulima clara1 site
- Glycymeris idonea1 site
- Hoploparia tennesseensis1 site
- Ischyodus williamsae1 site
- Jupiteria1 site
- Latirus1 site
- Linuparus canadensis1 site
- Meandropolydora1 site
- Mesalia alabamiensis1 site
- Natica1 site
- Orthosurcula1 site
- Ostrea crenulimarginata1 site
- Ostrea pulaskensis1 site
- Pachyrhizodus caninus1 site
- Paguristes johnsoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Conopeum damicornis, 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- The Midway Group of Texas7
- Paleocene turtles and crocodilians directly above the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) boundary in Pulaski County, Illinois1
Each of the 8 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Conopeum damicornis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Conopeum damicornis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itConopeum through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Canu and Bassler 1920