Cornutella

Cornutella is a genus of radiolarians in the family Theoperidae. C. clathrata, the type species, was described from the Miocene of Caltanisetta, Sicily.

Cornutella

Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919); engravings by Adolf Giltsch (1852-1911). · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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
AcropyramididaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 211 million years on record.

The record covers at least 211.18 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 222 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 222 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 222 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 7 of 222 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 222 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 43 of 222 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 29 of 222 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 222 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 222 occurrencesMiocene — about 72 of 222 occurrencesPliocene — about 34 of 222 occurrencesPleistocene — about 29 of 222 occurrences232–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–216 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences216–209 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences185–178 Mya — about 1 occurrence178–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences147–139 Mya — about 5 occurrences108–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence93–85 Mya — about 17 occurrences85–77 Mya — about 12 occurrences77–70 Mya — about 7 occurrences70–62 Mya — about 32 occurrences62–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–15 Mya — about 24 occurrences15–7.7 Mya — about 32 occurrences7.7–0 Mya — about 81 occurrences211.18 Mya11.7 ka232 Mya0 Mya

222 occurrences of Cornutella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

222 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

12 formations

Urakawa — 42.17°N, 142.82°EMead Hill — 41.92°S, 174.07°EAmeghino — 64.47°S, 58.97°WAmeghino — 63.97°S, 58.17°WEfue — 42.17°N, 142.82°ELimanangcong — 11.99°N, 120.21°EJosephine — 41.87°N, 123.83°WMörnsheim — 48.86°N, 10.99°EBorbon — 1.00°N, 79.75°WRegosawa — 44.87°N, 142.28°EA — 44.98°N, 142.27°EB — 44.98°N, 142.27°ETakinoue — 42.80°N, 142.35°E

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The named rock units Cornutella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 157 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cornutella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cornutella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

758 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 206 sites for Cornutella, 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

25 references

Each of the 222 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. 13 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 Cornutella

Credit
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919); engravings by Adolf Giltsch (1852-1911).
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cornutella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1838