Corethron

Kristian Peters lire en ligne · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
- CorethraceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Bacillariophyceae
- Environment
- marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Bacillariophyceae
Time the record covers
At least 5.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
18 occurrences of Corethron on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
18 occurrences- Miocene28%
- Pliocene33%
- Pleistocene17%
- Holocene22%
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.
Corethron and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Corethron and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Fragilariopsis17 sites
- Eucampia15 sites
- Chaetoceros14 sites
- Actinocyclus13 sites
- Denticulopsis9 sites
- Rhizosolenia9 sites
- Stellarima9 sites
- Thalassiosira9 sites
- Actinocyclus ingens8 sites
- Actinocyclus octonarius8 sites
- Proboscia8 sites
- Azpeitia7 sites
- Shionodiscus7 sites
- Thalassiothrix7 sites
- Coscinodiscus6 sites
- Dactyliosolen6 sites
- Paralia sulcata6 sites
- Stephanopyxis turris6 sites
- Actinocyclus actinochilus5 sites
- Cocconeis5 sites
- Rouxia5 sites
- Thalassionema5 sites
- Trinacria5 sites
- Pseudammodochium4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Corethron, 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
8 referencesEach of the 18 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Corethron
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Kristian Peters lire en ligne
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Corethron 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCorethraceae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Castracane 1886