Cordilites

No picture of Cordilites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cordilites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SolenoporaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyceae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhodophyceae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhodophyceae
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,marinePBDB, for Rhodophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 61.66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 56 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 5 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83.6 Mya61.66 Mya86.3 Mya55.4 Mya

5 occurrences of Cordilites 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

5 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

1 formation

Sinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°E

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The named rock units Cordilites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cordilites and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Cordilites and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cordilites, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

3 references

Each of the 5 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

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No picture of Cordilites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cordilites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cordilites 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 itSolenoporaceae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pocta 1887