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Conopeum

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1007733	https://www.gbif.org/species/1007733
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	25824	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=25824

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Bryozoa : Gymnolaemata : Cheilostomatida : Electridae : Conopeum

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Bryozoa : Gymnolaemata : Cheilostomata : Electridae : Conopeum

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
-	Polyzoa
phylum	Bryozoa	Ehrenberg 1831
class	Gymnolaemata	Allman 1856
order	Cheilostomata	Busk 1859
suborder	Malacostegina	Levinsen 1902
superfamily	Membraniporoidea	Busk 1852
family	Electridae	D'Orbigny 1851
genus	Conopeum	Gray 1848

Scientific Name

Conopeum Gray, 1848

Name Published In

Gray, J.E. (1848). List of the specimens of British animals in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1. Centroniae or radiated animals. 1: 1-173.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Conopeum	genus	belongs to Membraniporidae	stated without evidence	Bohm, 1926
Conopeum	genus	belongs to Cheilostomata	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Conopeum	genus	belongs to Electridae	stated with evidence	Bock, 2006
Conopeum	genus	belongs to Electridae	stated without evidence	Guha, 2013

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

3 (20%)

First Recorded Appearance

105 - 100 Ma
Cretaceous

Motility

stationary, attached (based on Cheilostomata)

Vision

blind (based on Gymnolaemata)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Cheilostomata)

Reproduction

oviparous, brooding (based on Cheilostomata)

Taphonomy

intermediate Mg calcite (based on Electridae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Conopeum aciculatum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum arborescens ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	41.3 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Conopeum chesapeakensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum commensale species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum concavum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	38.0 Ma Eocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Conopeum damicornis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Conopeum eriophorum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum fluviatilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum germana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum gohelaensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Conopeum grimmi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum hexagonum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum hoockeri ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Conopeum lacroixii species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	3.60 Ma Pliocene	0 Ma Extant
Conopeum lamellosum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Conopeum loki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum nakanosum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum nitidulum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum oretiensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum ornatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Conopeum osburni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum ovale species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum papillorum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum parviporosum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum ponticum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum reticulum species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Conopeum rhombica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum seurati species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum similior ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Conopeum similor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum spiculata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum spissamentum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum stamenocelloides ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Conopeum tenuissimum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum truitti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum tuberosum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Conopeum vivianii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum wilcoxianicum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Conopeum wilcoxianum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Conopeum wilsoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Membranipora hoockeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Membranipora lacroixii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1848	Conopeum Gray
1926	Conopeum Bohm p. 56
1958	Conopeum Brown
2000	Conopeum Pouyet
2002	Conopeum Sepkoski, Jr.
2006	Conopeum Bock
2013	Conopeum Di Martino and Taylor p. 84
2013	Conopeum Guha
2015	Conopeum Gordon and Taylor

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Bohm J. (1926) Über Tertiäre versteinerungen von den Bogenfelser diamantfeldern, Beiträge zur geologischen Erforschung der deutschen Schutzgebiete 2, 55-87

Brown D. A. (1958) Fossil cheilostomatous polyzoa from south-west Victoria, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Victoria 20

Pouyet S. (2000) Les bryozoaires cheilostomes du Néogène bétique (SE Espagne), Revista Española de Paleontología 15 2, 181-202

Bock P. (2006) http://bryozoa.net

Di Martino E., Taylor P. D. (2013) First bryozoan fauna from a tropical Cretaceous carbonate: Simsima Formation, United Arab Emirates-Oman border region, Cretaceous Research 43, 80-96

Guha A. K. (2013) Tertiary bryozoa from Western Kachchh, Gujarat - A Review, Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 58 1, 3-15

Gordon D. P., Taylor P. D. (2015) Bryozoa of the Early Eocene Tumaio Limestone, Chatham Island, New Zealand, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 1-88 doi:10.1080/14772019.2014.991905

Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Ryland, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Gray, J.E. (1848). List of the specimens of British animals in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1. Centroniae or radiated animals. 1: 1-173. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Hayward, P.J. (2001). Bryozoa, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 325-333 - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

List Brit. Anim. Brit. Mus. (Centr.), 108 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

De Blauwe, H. (2009) - via Taxa Watermanagement the Netherlands (TWN)

Hansson, Hans G. (2008) "MESS - Marina Evertebrater från Södra Skandinavien (Marine Invertebrates from South Scandinavia) - a teaching aid for students. Marina syd-skandinaviska ""evertebrater"", ett naturhistoriskt urval. Web-upplaga mars 2008. http://www.tmbl.gu.se/staff/HansGHanssonP.html" - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Gray, J.E. (1848). List of the specimens of British animals in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1. Centroniae or radiated animals. 1: 1-173. - via World Register of Marine Species

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!

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