Cunnolites

Cunnolites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CunnolitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 75 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 216 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 216 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 186 of 216 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 11 of 216 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 12 of 216 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 216 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences134–130 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 1 occurrence111–107 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 5 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 26 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 29 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 29 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 44 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 48 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–58 Mya — about 6 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–39 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 5 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences113.2 Mya37.71 Mya145 Mya32 Mya

216 occurrences of Cunnolites on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

216 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

23 formations

Aruma — 25.45°N, 46.53°EAruma — 25.17°N, 46.88°EAruma — 25.62°N, 46.37°EAruma — 25.93°N, 45.78°EAruma — 25.20°N, 46.82°ESimsima — 24.87°N, 55.95°ESimsima — 24.28°N, 55.83°ESimsima — 25.72°N, 55.82°ESimsima — 25.02°N, 55.78°ETarbur — 31.03°N, 58.22°ETarbur — 29.20°N, 58.30°EZongshan — 28.30°N, 88.53°EZongshan — 27.48°N, 88.90°EMaastricht — 50.82°N, 5.70°EQahlah — 24.28°N, 55.83°EHochmoos — 47.57°N, 13.50°EBozeş — 45.92°N, 23.55°EGuinea Corn — 18.15°N, 77.37°WTitanosarcolites Limestone — 18.33°N, 78.23°WVallcarga — 42.25°N, 0.97°ELa Cadiere d'Azur — 43.20°N, 5.77°ELokman — 40.63°N, 35.77°ETisje — 11.03°N, 49.05°EGrabenbach — 47.57°N, 13.52°EHouthem — 50.87°N, 5.78°EAachen — 50.80°N, 5.93°EAuradu Limestone — 9.97°N, 45.25°EProvidence Shales — 18.05°N, 76.28°WHiraiga Sandstone — 39.68°N, 141.98°EValudavur — 12.03°N, 79.75°ETaraklı — 40.20°N, 31.33°E

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The named rock units Cunnolites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 138 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cunnolites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cunnolites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

494 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Cunnolites, 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

49 references

Each of the 216 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. 37 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 content2

Picture of Cunnolites

Credit
Darth vader 92
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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.

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What may have been alongside itCunnolitidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gagnebin 1772