Belemnospongia parmula

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BelemnospongiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tetractinomorpha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tetractinomorpha
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tetractinomorpha
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.4 Mya to 306 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 342.9 Mya to 303.7 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 8 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferous344–342 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences340–338 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences338–337 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences329–327 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences325–323 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences335.4 Mya306 Mya343.7 Mya302.9 Mya

8 occurrences of Belemnospongia parmula on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

8 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

3 formations

Salem Limestone — 37.26°N, 85.34°WSalem Limestone — 37.19°N, 85.37°WSalem Limestone — 37.05°N, 85.05°WSalem Limestone — 38.06°N, 85.98°WBangor Limestone — 34.54°N, 88.00°WBond — 40.78°N, 88.68°W

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The named rock units Belemnospongia parmula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Belemnospongia parmula and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Belemnospongia parmula and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

83 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Belemnospongia parmula, 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

Each of the 8 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

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No picture of Belemnospongia parmula 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 Belemnospongia parmula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Belemnospongia parmula 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itBelemnospongia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rigby et al. 1979