Ancorinidae

Ancorinidae is a family of marine sponges belonging to the order of Tetractinellida.

Ancorinidae

Ria Tan , www.wildsingapore.com · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AncorinidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Demospongiae
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Demospongiae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Demospongiae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 151 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 16 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 16 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 16 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 16 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 16 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 16 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesMiocene171–166 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–155 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences155–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–144 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences144–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–106 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences106–101 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences101–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences63–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–8.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence165.3 Mya13.82 Mya171 Mya8 Mya

16 occurrences of Ancorinidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

16 occurrences

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

5 formations

Tutuiri Greensand — 43.75°S, 176.68°WFolkestone — 51.22°N, 0.82°WLagos-Portimao — 37.17°N, 8.22°WCastle Hayne — 35.23°N, 78.05°WObukhov — 48.37°N, 35.41°E

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The named rock units Ancorinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ancorinidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Ancorinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

340 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ancorinidae, 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

9 references

Each of the 16 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 content1

Picture of Ancorinidae

Credit
Ria Tan , www.wildsingapore.com
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ancorinidae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAncorinida through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schmidt 1870