Chinaspongia fani
No picture of Chinaspongia fani 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 Chinaspongia fani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChinaspongiaPBDB
- 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 most 4.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 264.28 Mya and 259.857 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Chinaspongia fani 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Chinaspongia fani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chinaspongia fani and its relatives
PermianWhere Chinaspongia fani and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Amblysiphonella1 site
- Amblysiphonella specialis1 site
- Archaeolithoporella1 site
- Asserculinia1 site
- Celyphia1 site
- Celyphia bacula1 site
- Colospongia1 site
- Colospongia benjamini1 site
- Cystothalamia1 site
- Deningeria1 site
- Disjectopora1 site
- Duplophyllum1 site
- Fistulipora sinensis1 site
- Girtyocoelia1 site
- Gymnocodium1 site
- Intrasporeocoelia hubeiensis1 site
- Laccosiphonella merlai1 site
- Lingchangospongia lingchangensis1 site
- Palaeoaplysina laminaeformis1 site
- Parauvanella1 site
- Parauvanella minima1 site
- Peronidella1 site
- Rhabdactinia1 site
- Sollasia arta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Chinaspongia fani, 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
1 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Chinaspongia fani 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 Chinaspongia fani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Chinaspongia fani 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChinaspongia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Belyaeva 2000