Blastochaetetes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DemospongiaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Demospongiae
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Demospongiae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Demospongiae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 143 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 12 of 28 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 28 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 8 of 28 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 28 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 28 occurrencesLate Cretaceous240–235 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences235–229 Mya — about 2 occurrences229–223 Mya — about 2 occurrences223–217 Mya — about 2 occurrences217–212 Mya — about 2 occurrences212–206 Mya — about 2 occurrences206–200 Mya — about 3 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 2 occurrences160–155 Mya — about 2 occurrences155–149 Mya — about 4 occurrences149–143 Mya — about 1 occurrence143–137 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences115–109 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences92–86 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences86–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–75 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences75–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences227.3 Mya83.6 Mya240 Mya69 Mya

28 occurrences of Blastochaetetes on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

28 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

9 formations

Xiaqiongco — 31.75°N, 89.50°EXiaqiongco — 31.73°N, 89.52°ECabeca — 37.12°N, 8.18°WCabeca — 37.15°N, 7.88°WGhomrassen — 33.12°N, 10.28°EAsinepe Limestone — 3.00°S, 129.00°ESant Corneli — 42.20°N, 1.07°ESao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°WLa Cadiere d'Azur — 43.20°N, 5.77°EBarranquin — 10.42°N, 63.50°WTamasopo — 23.08°N, 100.67°W

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The named rock units Blastochaetetes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Blastochaetetes and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Blastochaetetes and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

420 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Blastochaetetes, 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

20 references

Each of the 28 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. 8 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Blastochaetetes 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itDemospongiae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dietrich 1919