Anthaspidellidae

Anthaspidellidae is an extinct family of sponges whose dendroclone spicules form ladder-like trabs.

Anthaspidellidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrchocladinaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lithistida

Time the record covers

At least 346 million years on record.

The record covers at least 508 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 511.2 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 15 of 432 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 251 of 432 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 75 of 432 occurrencesDevonian — about 26 of 432 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 432 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 19 of 432 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 432 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 432 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 42 of 432 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 432 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 432 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 432 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 432 occurrences519–506 Mya — about 8 occurrences506–493 Mya — about 6 occurrences493–480 Mya — about 22 occurrences480–468 Mya — about 115 occurrences468–455 Mya — about 91 occurrences455–442 Mya — about 25 occurrences442–429 Mya — about 46 occurrences429–416 Mya — about 28 occurrences416–404 Mya — about 2 occurrences391–378 Mya — about 1 occurrence378–365 Mya — about 17 occurrences365–353 Mya — about 6 occurrences327–314 Mya — about 2 occurrences289–276 Mya — about 7 occurrences276–263 Mya — about 8 occurrences263–251 Mya — about 4 occurrences238–225 Mya — about 6 occurrences225–212 Mya — about 11 occurrences212–200 Mya — about 26 occurrences200–187 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences187–174 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences174–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161–148 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences148–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences508 Mya161.5 Mya519 Mya136 Mya

432 occurrences of Anthaspidellidae on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

432 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

86 formations

San Juan — 30.00°S, 69.00°WSan Juan — 32.00°S, 69.00°WSan Juan — 31.00°S, 69.00°WSan Juan — 31.33°S, 68.55°WSan Juan — 30.50°S, 68.50°WSan Juan — 31.01°S, 68.76°WSan Juan — 30.14°S, 68.52°WSan Juan — 30.58°S, 68.85°WSan Juan — 30.30°S, 68.82°WDelorme — 62.40°N, 127.07°WCape Phillips — 75.14°N, 93.90°WCape Phillips — 75.75°N, 94.40°WCape Phillips — 75.27°N, 95.97°WKindblade — 34.93°N, 98.73°WKindblade — 34.38°N, 96.93°WKindblade — 34.37°N, 97.13°WKindblade — 34.42°N, 97.27°WKindblade — 34.97°N, 98.63°WMingan — 50.20°N, 63.67°WMingan — 50.20°N, 63.83°WMingan — 50.22°N, 64.12°WMingan — 50.21°N, 63.56°WMingan — 50.20°N, 63.35°WAntelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.67°WAntelope Valley — 39.09°N, 116.85°WAntelope Valley — 36.78°N, 115.89°WAntelope Valley — 38.53°N, 116.40°WAntelope Valley — 39.00°N, 116.62°WAntelope Valley — 39.05°N, 116.73°WMalongulli — 33.58°S, 148.89°EVirgin Hills — 18.73°S, 126.08°EVirgin Hills — 18.29°S, 125.87°EHonghuayuan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EHonghuayuan — 28.00°N, 109.00°EHonghuayuan — 29.00°N, 109.00°EHonghuayuan — 30.90°N, 110.83°EHonghuayuan — 30.85°N, 111.38°EHonghuayuan — 30.10°N, 116.93°EBadger Flat — 36.94°N, 118.07°WBadger Flat — 36.95°N, 118.08°WYijianfang — 40.17°N, 78.92°EYijianfang — 40.02°N, 79.02°EYijianfang — 40.08°N, 78.83°EShingle Limestone — 38.40°N, 114.97°WWindjana Limestone — 17.40°S, 124.95°ELos Azules — 30.75°S, 68.75°WDouro — 73.93°N, 92.10°WDouro — 72.98°N, 91.66°WDouro — 72.82°N, 92.02°WLianjiashan — 40.00°N, 118.00°ELianjiashan — 39.00°N, 118.00°ELianjiashan — 41.00°N, 118.00°ELianjiashan — 40.00°N, 119.00°EBurgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WBurgess Shale — 51.05°N, 115.85°WBone Spring — 31.49°N, 104.94°WBone Spring — 31.90°N, 104.88°WHoneycut — 30.27°N, 97.74°WHoneycut — 31.02°N, 98.53°WHoneycut — 31.08°N, 98.57°WHoneycut — 30.27°N, 98.35°WDachstein — 47.58°N, 14.47°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°EDachstein — 48.00°N, 16.42°EDumugol — 37.08°N, 129.00°EDumugol — 36.22°N, 129.17°EDumugol — 35.55°N, 128.75°EDumugol — 36.58°N, 128.85°EYingshan — 39.80°N, 77.37°EYingshan — 40.09°N, 78.84°ELiangJiaShan — 40.00°N, 123.00°ELiangJiaShan — 42.00°N, 126.00°ELiangJiaShan — 43.58°N, 125.17°EPalmarito — 8.03°N, 71.35°W

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The named rock units Anthaspidellidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 62 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anthaspidellidae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Anthaspidellidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,811 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 185 sites for Anthaspidellidae, 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

118 references

Each of the 432 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. 106 further references are not listed. 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 Anthaspidellidae

Credit
Bloopityboop
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Anthaspidellidae 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

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1889