Cooleyella

Cooleyella is an extinct genus of cartilaginous fish which lived from the Carboniferous to the Permian of the United States, Russia, UK and Oman. Several species have been described. It is placed in the family Anachronistidae.

No picture of Cooleyella 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 Cooleyella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnachronistidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 66 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 18 of 43 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 25 of 43 occurrencesPermian348–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342–339 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences339–336 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences336–333 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences333–330 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences330–327 Mya — about 3 occurrences327–324 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences315–312 Mya — about 1 occurrence312–309 Mya — about 2 occurrences309–306 Mya — about 2 occurrences306–303 Mya — about 4 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 2 occurrences300–297 Mya — about 1 occurrence297–294 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 1 occurrence291–288 Mya — about 1 occurrence288–285 Mya — about 1 occurrence285–282 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences276–273 Mya — about 1 occurrence273–270 Mya — about 3 occurrences270–267 Mya — about 3 occurrences267–264 Mya — about 5 occurrences264–261 Mya — about 4 occurrences261–258 Mya — about 2 occurrences330.3 Mya264.28 Mya348 Mya258 Mya

43 occurrences of Cooleyella on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

43 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

16 formations

Bell Canyon — 31.93°N, 104.73°WBell Canyon — 31.83°N, 104.87°WCutoff — 31.82°N, 104.83°WCherryvale shale — 39.07°N, 94.64°WSteshev — 54.88°N, 37.44°ESteshev — 54.90°N, 37.32°EForaker — 39.83°N, 95.37°WKhuff — 20.86°N, 57.60°EKhuff — 21.01°N, 57.67°EBoggy — 34.43°N, 96.96°WCawdor — 53.09°N, 1.57°WArcturus — 39.25°N, 114.92°WSevery Shale — 40.03°N, 96.03°WDennis — 39.11°N, 94.58°WVolonga — 67.55°N, 49.25°EKazan — 55.78°N, 48.91°ENara — 54.88°N, 37.79°EMinturn — 39.90°N, 107.77°WCherry Canyon — 31.90°N, 104.83°W

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The named rock units Cooleyella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cooleyella and its relatives

Permian

Where Cooleyella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

163 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Cooleyella, 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

15 references

Each of the 43 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. 3 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

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No picture of Cooleyella 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 Cooleyella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cooleyella 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itAnachronistidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gunnell 1933