Actinospongia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HolcospongiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Calcarea
Time the record covers
At least 101 million years on record.
The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 125.77 Mya.
7 occurrences of Actinospongia on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Actinospongia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Actinospongia and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Actinospongia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
589 taxa- Actinofungia astroites3 sites
- Arca3 sites
- Arctica3 sites
- Cardium3 sites
- Cidaris3 sites
- Colospongia dubia3 sites
- Cupulochonia3 sites
- Lima3 sites
- Mytilus3 sites
- Peronidella subcaespitosa3 sites
- Reptomulticava3 sites
- Siphonocoelia3 sites
- Sparsispongia3 sites
- Terebratula3 sites
- Venus3 sites
- Astarte2 sites
- Cassianella decussata2 sites
- Cassianopsis armata2 sites
- Celyphia submarginata2 sites
- Ceratoporella2 sites
- Ceriocava2 sites
- Cerithium2 sites
- Coelostylina crassa2 sites
- Colombellina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Actinospongia, 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
6 references- Die Typus-Profile des Valanginien und Hauterivien2
- Primary collection data of Cassian Formation used for publication of Fürsich and Wendt (1977) (ref. 9188)1
- Neue Kieselschwämme aus den Zlambachschichten (Obertrias, Nördliche Kalkalpen) [New siliceous sponges from the Zlambach Beds (Upper Triassic, northern Calcareous Alps)]1
- Biostratinomy and palaeoecology of the Cassian Formation (Triassic) of the Southern Alps1
- Jura Vaudois et Neuchatelois1
- Beiträge zur Geognosie und Petrefacten-Kunde des südöstlichen Tirols vorzüglich der Schichten von St. Cassian1
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Actinospongia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Actinospongia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Actinospongia 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 itHolcospongiinae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1849