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Cornulitida ✝
Source Data |
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Rank | order (PBDB) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Tentaculita : Cornulitida | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Opinions (PBDB) |
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Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 513 - 505 Ma Cambrian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Recorded Appearance | 331 - 323 Ma Carboniferous | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Motility | stationary, attached, epibiont (based on Cornulitida) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vision | blind (based on Tentaculita) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Diet | suspension feeder (based on Cornulitida) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ecospace Comments | LIFE HISTORY: Data from Leighton (2005). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taphonomy | low Mg calcite (based on Tentaculita) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | O. Vinn and M.-A. Motus. 2008. The earliest endosymbiotic mineralized tubeworms from the Silurian of Podolia, Ukraine. Journal of Paleontology 82(2):409-414 |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Cornulitidae ✝ family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 271 | 466 Ma Middle Ordovician | 331 Ma Carboniferous |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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1964 | Cornulitida Boucek |
2007 | Cornulitida Zhan and Vinn p. 105 |
2008 | Cornulitida Vinn and Motus p. 410 |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!