Calceolispongia
Calceolispongia is a diverse genus of cladid crinoids that lived along the shores of eastern Pangaea that correspond to Timor and Western Australia, today.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArticuliformesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cladida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cladida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cladida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 30 million years on record.
The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
62 occurrences of Calceolispongia on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
62 occurrences- Carboniferousunder 1%
- Permian99%
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
15 formations
- Callytharra Formation27
- Barfield Formation4
- Wandagee Formation3
- Wandrawandian Formation3
- Counsel Creek Formation3
- Noonkanbah Formation2
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The named rock units Calceolispongia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Calceolispongia and its relatives
PermianWhere Calceolispongia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
385 taxa- Koenigoria neoaustralis15 sites
- Calcitornella14 sites
- Cleiothyridina14 sites
- Etherilosia etheridgei14 sites
- Lamnaespina papilionata14 sites
- Neochonetes (Sommeriella) pratti14 sites
- Protonodosaria14 sites
- Sansabaina14 sites
- Spiroplectammina14 sites
- Taeniothaerus14 sites
- Tezaquina14 sites
- Trepeilopsis14 sites
- Trochammina14 sites
- Vervilleina14 sites
- Cleiothyridina ovalis13 sites
- Placopsilina13 sites
- Camptocrinus12 sites
- Cimmeriella foordi12 sites
- Geinitzina11 sites
- Hemigordius11 sites
- Spiriferella hoskingae11 sites
- Ammodiscus10 sites
- Camerisma9 sites
- Neocamptocrinus9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Calceolispongia, 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
11 references- The crinoid genera Tribrachyocrinus McCoy, Calceolispongia Etheridge, Jimbacrinus Teichert and Meganotocrinus n. gen. in the Permian of eastern Australia18
- Foraminifera and their habitats within a cool-water carbonate succession following glaciation, Early Permian (Sakmarian), Western Australia14
- Permian echinoderms from Western Australia12
- Die permischen Krinoiden von Timor6
- New Permian crinoids from Australia4
- Permian crinoids from the type-section of the Callytharra Formation, Callytharra Springs, Western Australia3
- An Early Permian fauna from the Mantle Volcanics Formation, Skippers Range, northwest Otago1
- New Permian crinoids from Australia1
- A biometrical Study of productidae from umaria marine bed1
- The Permian Orthotetacea of Western Australia1
- Western Australian Carboniferous fossils, chiefly from Mount Marmion, Lennard River, West Kimberley1
Each of the 62 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 content1
Picture of Calceolispongia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Apokryltaros
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Calceolispongia 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itArticuliformes through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Etheridge 1915