Caninia (coral) explained

Caninia is an extinct genus of rugose coral.^[1] Its fossils occur worldwide from the Devonian to the Permian periods.

Paleoecology

It was marine in nature and known to live in lagoon-type ecosystems. Because of the shallow water in which it lived, Caninia was often affected by processes above the water level, such as storms.

Distribution

Place name		Age
"Worldwide"		Devonian ^[2]
		Mississippian^[3] ^[4]
Illinois		Mississippian
Oklahoma	Fayetteville Shale	Mississippian
		Mississippian ^[5]
		Mississippian^[6]
		Pennsylvanian^[7]
Nevada (Ely basin)		(Early) Pennsylvanian ^[8]
		Pennsylvanian ^[9]
Wales (South)		Carboniferous^[10] ^[11]
Vancouver Island		Permian ^[12]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fossil Corals . 2012-11-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120614054903/http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Extension/fossils/coral.html . 2012-06-14 . dead .
2. Shimer and Shock. 1944. Index Fossils of North America. MIT Press. Boston. pg. 91.
3. Easton, W.H. 1943. The Fauna of the Pitkin Formation of Arkansas. Journal of Paleontology: vol. 17. no. 2.
4. Easton, W.H. 1945. Amplexoid Corals from the Chester of Illinois and Arkansas. Journal of Paleontology: vol. 19. no. 6.
5. Easton, W.H. 1945. Corals from the Otter Formation (Mississippian) of Montana. Journal of Paleontology: vol. 19. no. 5.
6. Jeffords, Russel. 1943. Caninia from the Lower Carboniferous of New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology. vol. 17. no. 6.
7. Web site: Kansas Geological Survey . 2012-11-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120614054903/http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Extension/fossils/coral.html . 2012-06-14 . dead .
8. Coogan, Alan. 1964. Early Pennsylvanian History of Ely Basin, Nevada. AAAPG Bulletin. vol. 48 no. 4.
9. Waller, T.H. 1969. Lower Cisco Carbonate Deposition in North-Central Texas. A Guidebook to the Late Pennsylvanian Shelf Sediments, North-Central Texas. pp. 34-39.
10. Wu, Xian-tao. 1982. Storm-generated depositional types and associated trace fossils in Lower Carboniferous shallow-marine carbonates of Three Cliffs Bay and Ogmore-by-Sea, South Wales. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. vol.39. issue 3-4.
11. Beus, Stanly. Fossil Associations in the High Tor Limestone (Lower Carboniferous) of South Wales. Journal of Paleontology. vol. 58. no. 3.
12. Ludvigsen, Rolf & Beard, Graham. 1997. West Coast Fossils: A Guide to the Ancient Life of Vancouver Island. pg. 67