Cavusonella caverna
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CavusonellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Agelasida
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
22 occurrences of Cavusonella caverna 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
22 occurrences- Permian100%
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
7 formations
- Capitan Limestone Formation10
- Maokou Formation4
- Capitan Formation3
- Djebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex Formation1
- Saikra Biohermal Complex Formation1
- Cheguimi Sandstone Formation1
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The named rock units Cavusonella caverna 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.
Cavusonella caverna and its relatives
PermianWhere Cavusonella caverna and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
110 taxa- Minispongia constricta12 sites
- Parauvanella minima11 sites
- Sollasia ostiolata9 sites
- Guadalupia zitteliana7 sites
- Bicoelia guadalupensis5 sites
- Intratubospongia osiensis5 sites
- Lemonea cylindrica5 sites
- Virgola neptunia5 sites
- Girtyocoelia beedei4 sites
- Lemonea conica4 sites
- Lemonea micra4 sites
- Lemonea polysiphonata4 sites
- Tristratocoelia rhythmica4 sites
- Discosiphonella3 sites
- Exaulipora permica3 sites
- Gigantospongia discoforma3 sites
- Imbricatocoelia elongata3 sites
- Intrasporeocoelia hubeiensis3 sites
- Permocorynella ovoidalis3 sites
- Permosoma3 sites
- Preeudea minima3 sites
- Preperonidella delicata3 sites
- Pseudohimatella pauciporata3 sites
- Radiotrabeculopora xiangboensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Cavusonella caverna, 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
5 references- Sponges of the Permian Upper Capitan Limestone, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas10
- Upper Permian inozoid, demospongid, and hexactinellid sponges from Djebel Tebaga, Tunisia4
- Inozoan calcareous Porifera from the Permian reefs in South China4
- Strengths and weaknesses of the reef guild concept and quantitative data: Application to the Upper Capitan-massive community (Permian), Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico-Texas3
- Calcisponges and hydrozoans from Permian reefs in western Guangxi (in Chinese)1
Each of the 22 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 Cavusonella caverna was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cavusonella caverna, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCavusonella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rigby et al. 1989