Cupulocorona

No picture of Cupulocorona 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 Cupulocorona, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StephanocrinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Coronata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Coronata
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Coronata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Coronata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 448.8 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.2 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 6 of 28 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 22 of 28 occurrencesSilurian450–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence449–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–447 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 2 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 3 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 3 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 2 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence429–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence429–428 Mya — about 1 occurrence428–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–426 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences448.8 Mya432.9 Mya449.7 Mya426.2 Mya

28 occurrences of Cupulocorona on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

28 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

13 formations

Osgood — 39.07°N, 85.25°WWayne — 36.08°N, 87.00°WWayne — 35.38°N, 88.00°WOsgood Shale — 39.13°N, 85.30°WSholeshook — 51.80°N, 4.53°WSholeshook — 51.82°N, 4.95°WIrondequoit Limestone — 43.21°N, 77.58°WScotch Grove — 42.17°N, 91.11°WScotch Grove — 41.85°N, 90.18°WWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WSt. Clair Limestone — 35.77°N, 91.63°WOsgood Limestone — 38.28°N, 85.73°WDolhir — 52.76°N, 3.43°WRochester Shale — 43.20°N, 77.53°WRochester — 43.17°N, 79.03°WSlade and Redhill Mudstone — 51.81°N, 4.96°W

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The named rock units Cupulocorona has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cupulocorona and its relatives

Silurian

Where Cupulocorona and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

291 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Cupulocorona, 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

4 references

Each of the 28 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 Cupulocorona 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 Cupulocorona, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cupulocorona 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 itStephanocrinidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Donovan and Paul 1985