Allantospongia mica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AllantospongiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Allantospongia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Allantospongia
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Allantospongia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Allantospongia
Time the record covers
At most 33 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Allantospongia mica on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
4 occurrences- Cambrian100%
These 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 Allantospongia mica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Allantospongia mica and its relatives
CambrianWhere Allantospongia mica and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
139 taxa- Choiaella radiata2 sites
- Chuandianella ovata2 sites
- Eoglossa chengjiangensis2 sites
- Fortiforceps foliosa2 sites
- Fuxianhuia protensa2 sites
- Heliomedusa orienta2 sites
- Isoxys auritus2 sites
- Isoxys paradoxus2 sites
- Kuamaia lata2 sites
- Kunmingella douvillei2 sites
- Leanchoilia illecebrosa2 sites
- Mafangscolex sinensis2 sites
- Misszhouia longicaudata2 sites
- Naraoia spinosa2 sites
- Paraleptomitella dictyodroma2 sites
- Retifacies abnormalis2 sites
- Saetaspongia densa2 sites
- Squamacula clypeata2 sites
- Triticispongia diagonata2 sites
- ? Sponge ? gemmule1 site
- Acanthomeridion serratum1 site
- Acosmia maotiania1 site
- Ambrolinevitus ventricosus1 site
- Amiskwia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Allantospongia mica, 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
4 references- Composition and tiering of the Cambrian sponge communities1
- Taphonomy and Palaeoecology of the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota from Eastern Yunnan, China1
- Lower Cambrian Burgess Shale-type fossil associations of South China1
- Lower Cambrian demosponges and hexactinellid sponges from Yunnan, China1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Allantospongia mica 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 Allantospongia mica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Allantospongia mica 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.
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What may have been alongside itAllantospongia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rigby and Hou 1995