Amphispongia oblonga
No picture of Amphispongia oblonga 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 Amphispongia oblonga, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmphispongiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Reticulosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Reticulosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Reticulosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 432.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Amphispongia oblonga on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
1 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Amphispongia oblonga has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Amphispongia oblonga and its relatives
SilurianWhere Amphispongia oblonga and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Acernaspis (Eskaspis) sufferta1 site
- Anodontopsis1 site
- Atrypa (Atrypa)1 site
- Coolinia applanata1 site
- Coolinia pecten1 site
- Craspedobolbina1 site
- Cyrtodontula1 site
- Dictyocaris1 site
- Echinodermata1 site
- Encrinurus expansus1 site
- Eoplectodonta penkillensis1 site
- Eridotrypa1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Hecetastoma salteri1 site
- Helopora1 site
- Hyolithes1 site
- Leptodesma (Leptodesma)1 site
- Lingula1 site
- Liospira simulans1 site
- Loxonema1 site
- Machaeridia1 site
- Nautiloidea1 site
- Orthonota1 site
- Pentlandella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Amphispongia oblonga, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Amphispongia oblonga 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 Amphispongia oblonga, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amphispongia oblonga 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 itAmphispongia through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Salter 1861