Caninia is an extinct genus of rugose coral. 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 formation Age "Worldwide" Devonian Shimer and Shock. 1944. Index Fossils of North America. MIT Press. Boston. pg. 91. Arkansas Fayetteville Shale, Pitkin Limestone MississippianEaston, W.H. 1943. The Fauna of the Pitkin Formation of Arkansas. Journal of Paleontology: vol. 17. no. 2.Easton, W.H. 1945. Amplexoid Corals from the Chester of Illinois and Arkansas. Journal of Paleontology: vol. 19. no. 6. Illinois Mississippian Oklahoma Fayetteville Shale Mississippian Montana Otter Formation Mississippian Easton, W.H. 1945. Corals from the Otter Formation (Mississippian) of Montana. Journal of Paleontology: vol. 19. no. 5. New Mexico Lake Valley Formation MississippianJeffords, Russel. 1943. Caninia from the Lower Carboniferous of New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology. vol. 17. no. 6. Kansas Lecompton Limestone Pennsylvanian Nevada (Ely basin) Chainman Shale (Early) Pennsylvanian Coogan, Alan. 1964. Early Pennsylvanian History of Ely Basin, Nevada. AAAPG Bulletin. vol. 48 no. 4. Texas Cisco Group Pennsylvanian 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. Wales (South) Arundian Limestone, High Tor Limestone CarboniferousWu, 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.Beus, Stanly. Fossil Associations in the High Tor Limestone (Lower Carboniferous) of South Wales. Journal of Paleontology. vol. 58. no. 3. Vancouver Island Buttle Lake Formation Permian Ludvigsen, Rolf & Beard, Graham. 1997. West Coast Fossils: A Guide to the Ancient Life of Vancouver Island. pg. 67
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