Aphrocallistes

Aphrocallistes is a genus of sponges belonging to the family Aphrocallistidae.

Aphrocallistes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AphrocallistidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 94 million years on record.

The record covers at least 106.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 110.1 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 73 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 41 of 73 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 73 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 7 of 73 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 73 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 19 of 73 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 73 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–101 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 8 occurrences84–80 Mya — about 5 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 5 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 5 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 8 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 8 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences62–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences52–48 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–8.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.8–5.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences106.3 Mya11.63 Mya112 Mya5 Mya

73 occurrences of Aphrocallistes 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

73 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

15 formations

Pirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.18°S, 47.20°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WAhlen — 51.78°N, 8.03°ECrescent — 47.31°N, 123.53°WCrescent — 47.08°N, 123.83°WTsurikake — 42.09°N, 139.47°ETsurikake — 42.20°N, 139.53°EVic Marls — 41.85°N, 2.23°EArnager Limestone — 55.05°N, 14.78°ESeptarienton — 52.79°N, 14.00°EIlsenburg — 51.90°N, 10.67°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°EUpper Chalk — 50.65°N, 1.57°WHorimatsu — 37.45°N, 136.81°EWhite Limestone — 55.22°N, 6.40°WLincoln Creek — 46.49°N, 123.80°WKiev — 50.53°N, 30.55°ESuso — 37.12°N, 137.95°E

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The named rock units Aphrocallistes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aphrocallistes and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,066 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Aphrocallistes, 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

24 references

Each of the 73 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. 12 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 Aphrocallistes

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dphershman
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aphrocallistes 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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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 itAphrocallistidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1858