Cunnolites giganteus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CunnolitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cunnolites
- 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 most 78 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Cunnolites giganteus 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
11 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Cunnolites giganteus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cunnolites giganteus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cunnolites giganteus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Cunnolites polymorphus2 sites
- Acrosmilia conica1 site
- Aulosmilia aspera1 site
- Aulosmilia cuneiformis1 site
- Conicosmilotrochus stranicensis1 site
- Conicosmilotrochus strictus1 site
- Cunnolites gosavicus1 site
- Cunnolites orbignyi1 site
- Cunnolites scutellum1 site
- Rennensismilia subinduta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cunnolites giganteus, 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
5 references- Tethyan Cretaceous corals in Yugoslavia6
- Solitarne Senonijske korale iz Stranic in z Medvednice [Solitary Senonian corals from Stranice and Mt. Medvednica]2
- Coral fauna across the Cretaceous– Paleogene boundary at Zagros and Sistan Suture zones and Yazd Block of Iran1
- Mesozoic corals of Slovenia1
- Das Becken von Isfahan-Saidabad und seine altmiocäne Korallenfauna [The Isfahan-Saidabad Basin and its Miocene coral fauna]1
Each of the 11 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. 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
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No picture of Cunnolites giganteus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cunnolites giganteus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cunnolites giganteus 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.
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What may have been alongside itCunnolites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1850)