Bolospongia globata
No picture of Bolospongia globata was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Bolospongia globata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BolospongiaPBDB
- 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 most 35 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Bolospongia globata 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
1 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.
Bolospongia globata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Bolospongia globata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Aulosoma radiciformis1 site
- Bolospongia constricta1 site
- Eulespongia texta1 site
- Heterostinia obliqua1 site
- Jereica clava1 site
- Pachastrella convoluta1 site
- Pachinion scriptum1 site
- Phymatella reticulata1 site
- Scytalia fastigiata1 site
- Scytalia terebrata1 site
- Seliscothon explanatus1 site
- Seliscothon planus1 site
- Siphonia koenigi1 site
- Stichophyma tumidum1 site
- Tethyopsis cretaceus1 site
- Turonia variabilis1 site
- Ventriculites cribrosus1 site
- Verruculina (Amphichondrium) convoluta1 site
- Verruculina astraea1 site
- Verruculina miliaris1 site
- Verruculina papillata1 site
- Verruculina plicata1 site
- Verruculina pustulosa1 site
- Verruculina reussii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Bolospongia globata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 reference- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)1
Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Bolospongia globata was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Bolospongia globata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bolospongia globata was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBolospongia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hinde 1883