Amblysiphonella specialis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmblysiphonellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Agelasida
Time the record covers
At least 5.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
2 occurrences of Amblysiphonella specialis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
2 occurrences- Permian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Amblysiphonella specialis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Amblysiphonella specialis and its relatives
PermianWhere Amblysiphonella specialis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Archaeolithoporella1 site
- Asserculinia1 site
- Celyphia1 site
- Celyphia bacula1 site
- Chinaspongia fani1 site
- Colospongia1 site
- Colospongia benjamini1 site
- Cystothalamia1 site
- Deningeria1 site
- Disjectopora1 site
- Duplophyllum1 site
- Fistulipora sinensis1 site
- Girtyocoelia1 site
- Glomocystospongia gracilis1 site
- Gymnocodium1 site
- Intrasporeocoelia hubeiensis1 site
- Laccosiphonella merlai1 site
- Lingchangospongia lingchangensis1 site
- Palaeoaplysina laminaeformis1 site
- Parauvanella1 site
- Parauvanella minima1 site
- Peronidella1 site
- Preperonidella beipeiensis1 site
- Preperonidella rigbyi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Amblysiphonella specialis, 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
2 references- New taxa of Sphictozoa from the Permian reefs of southeastern China1
- Sphinctozoan sponges from the Permian reefs of South China1
Each of the 2 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 Amblysiphonella specialis 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 Amblysiphonella specialis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amblysiphonella specialis 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 itAmblysiphonella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rigby et al. 1989