Becksia soekelandi
No picture of Becksia soekelandi 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 Becksia soekelandi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BecksiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Becksia soekelandi on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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 Becksia soekelandi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Becksia soekelandi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Becksia soekelandi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
104 taxa- Jereica polystoma4 sites
- Astrocladia subramosa3 sites
- Coscinopora infundibuliformis3 sites
- Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri3 sites
- Leiochonia cryptoporosa3 sites
- Leptophragma murchisoni3 sites
- Phymatella bulbosa3 sites
- Seliscothon mantelli3 sites
- Verruculina tenuis3 sites
- Aulaxinia sulcifera2 sites
- Chonella tenuis2 sites
- Coeloptychium (Lophoptychium) lobatum2 sites
- Craticularia roemeri2 sites
- Homalodoriana ficus2 sites
- Jereica punctata2 sites
- Pachinion scriptum2 sites
- Rhizopoterion2 sites
- Seliscothon2 sites
- Sporadoscinia venosa2 sites
- Stachyspongia tuberculosa2 sites
- Verruculina seriatopora2 sites
- Acrochordonia bifurcata1 site
- Acrochordonia irregularis1 site
- Amphithelion1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Becksia soekelandi, 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
3 references- Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 2 Triaxonia (Hexactinellida) [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 2 Triaxonia (Hexactinellida)]3
- Die Spongien der Ilsenburg-Entwicklung (Oberes Unter-Campan) der Subherzynen Kreidemulde [Sponges of the Ilsenburg Formation (Upper Lower Campanian) of the Subhercynian Cretaceous Basin2
- Hexactinellid faunas in the chalk of England and Ireland1
Each of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Becksia soekelandi 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 Becksia soekelandi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Becksia soekelandi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itBecksia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schlüter 1868