Heterocoenites
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PachyporidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 274.4 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Heterocoenites on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
2 occurrences- Permian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Heterocoenites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Heterocoenites and its relatives
PermianWhere Heterocoenites and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
78 taxa- Agathiceras broweri1 site
- Amplexus arundinaceus1 site
- Anthracoporella1 site
- Archaeolithoporella1 site
- Aricoceras cancellatum1 site
- Aricoceras discoidale1 site
- Aulohelia irregularis1 site
- Aulohelia laevis1 site
- Aulopora timorica1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Bolbocrinus1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Cadocrinus variabilis1 site
- Calophyllum angustum1 site
- Carcinophyllum wichmanni1 site
- Cladochonus beecheri1 site
- Cladochonus crassus1 site
- Cladochonus magnus1 site
- Colospongia cortexifera1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Ekmelocrinus verbeeki1 site
- Embryocrinus hanieli1 site
- Epadrianites beyrichi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Heterocoenites, 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
2 references- Microbial carbonates as contributors to Upper Permian (Guadalupian-Lopingian) biostromes and reefs in carbonate platform setting, Ziyun County, south China1
- Der palaeontologische Charakter der Anthozoën-fauna des Perm von Timor1
Each of the 2 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
Media content1
Picture of Heterocoenites
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Heterocoenites 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPachyporidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gerth 1922