Corum

A picture published with the record for Corum. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
PseudodictyomitridaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 9.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 185 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 32 of 185 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 152 of 185 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 185 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 185 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences246–243 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences243–241 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences241–238 Mya — about 14 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 44 occurrences236–233 Mya — about 56 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 6 occurrences231–228 Mya — about 6 occurrences228–226 Mya — about 8 occurrences226–223 Mya — about 10 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 10 occurrences221–218 Mya — about 10 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 10 occurrences216–213 Mya — about 4 occurrences213–211 Mya — about 3 occurrences211–208 Mya — about 2 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 2 occurrences206–203 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–198 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences198–196 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences196–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences193–191 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences191–188 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences186–183 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences181–178 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences178–176 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences176–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences237 Mya – 227.3 Mya248 Mya173 Mya

185 occurrences of Corum on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

185 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

8 formations

Sapadere — 36.42°N, 32.42°EGokdere — 36.58°N, 30.43°EPeril — 54.10°N, 133.10°WPeril — 53.93°N, 133.19°WOtuk — 68.29°N, 163.37°WOtuk — 68.37°N, 162.83°WFields Creek — 44.25°N, 119.27°WSandstone Unit — 35.50°N, 86.25°EZulla — 23.20°N, 56.95°ELiminangcong — 11.96°N, 120.16°E

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The named rock units Corum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Corum and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Corum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

265 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 88 sites for Corum, 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

16 references

Each of the 185 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. 4 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 Corum

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itPseudodictyomitridae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blome 1984