Astylospongia

Astylospongia

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
AstylospongiidaePBDB
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 70 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 445.2 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 14 occurrencesSilurian — about 11 of 14 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 2 of 14 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 14 occurrences447–444 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences444–441 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences441–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 2 occurrences432–429 Mya — about 4 occurrences429–426 Mya — about 3 occurrences426–423 Mya — about 2 occurrences423–420 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences420–417 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences414–411 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences411–408 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences375–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372–369 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences369–366 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences366–363 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences363–360 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443.1 Mya372.15 Mya447 Mya357 Mya

14 occurrences of Astylospongia 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

14 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

10 formations

Waldron Shale — 39.00°N, 86.00°WWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WGarra — 32.58°S, 148.95°EWabash — 40.88°N, 85.50°WLaurel Limestone — 39.43°N, 85.63°WLaurel — 39.50°N, 85.47°WWayne — 35.38°N, 88.00°WWhite Head — 49.00°N, 64.00°WPorsguen — 48.33°N, 4.33°WCape Phillips — 75.27°N, 95.97°WDelorme — 62.40°N, 127.07°W

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The named rock units Astylospongia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Astylospongia and its relatives

Silurian

Where Astylospongia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

206 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Astylospongia, 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

8 references

Each of the 14 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 content2

Picture of Astylospongia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Astylospongia sp. · MST:PALEO:MST-SP-2615

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. Roemer 1860