Cliona

Cliona is a genus of demosponges in the family Clionaidae. It contains about eighty described species.

Cliona

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ClionaidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
boringPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 323 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 330.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Carboniferous — about 3 of 254 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 254 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 254 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 254 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 254 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 254 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 254 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 254 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 13 of 254 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 205 of 254 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 254 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 254 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 254 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 254 occurrencesPliocene — about 5 of 254 occurrencesPleistocene — about 15 of 254 occurrences337–326 Mya — about 2 occurrences326–314 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences247–236 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences124–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–101 Mya — about 10 occurrences101–90 Mya — about 15 occurrences90–79 Mya — about 13 occurrences79–67 Mya — about 141 occurrences67–56 Mya — about 38 occurrences56–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 21 occurrences323.4 Mya129 ka337 Mya0 Mya

254 occurrences of Cliona on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

254 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

38 formations

Prairie Bluff — 34.51°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.90°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.72°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 33.50°N, 88.81°WPrairie Bluff — 33.38°N, 88.74°WPrairie Bluff — 33.07°N, 88.61°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.91°N, 88.51°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.29°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.63°N, 88.22°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.31°N, 87.80°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.99°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.81°WPrairie Bluff — 31.95°N, 86.70°WPrairie Bluff — 32.00°N, 86.48°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.92°N, 86.17°WPrairie Bluff — 31.99°N, 85.92°WCorsicana Marl — 33.53°N, 94.51°WCorsicana Marl — 33.51°N, 94.67°WCorsicana Marl — 33.10°N, 95.99°WCorsicana Marl — 33.05°N, 96.06°WCorsicana Marl — 32.92°N, 96.12°WCorsicana Marl — 32.85°N, 96.21°WCorsicana Marl — 32.88°N, 96.20°WCorsicana Marl — 31.81°N, 96.54°WCorsicana Marl — 31.76°N, 96.57°WCorsicana Marl — 30.85°N, 97.08°WCorsicana Marl — 30.69°N, 97.20°WCorsicana Marl — 30.38°N, 97.49°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 30.34°N, 97.51°WCorsicana Marl — 30.20°N, 97.62°WCorsicana Marl — 30.00°N, 97.68°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.80°N, 97.89°WCorsicana Marl — 29.59°N, 98.04°WCorsicana Marl — 29.63°N, 98.54°WCorsicana Marl — 29.59°N, 98.08°WCorsicana Marl — 29.49°N, 98.19°WCorsicana Marl — 29.42°N, 98.43°WCorsicana Marl — 29.44°N, 98.56°WCorsicana Marl — 29.37°N, 98.78°WCorsicana Marl — 29.48°N, 98.81°WCorsicana Marl — 29.41°N, 98.90°WCorsicana Marl — 29.35°N, 98.88°WCorsicana Marl — 29.18°N, 99.02°WEscondido — 29.59°N, 98.07°WEscondido — 29.27°N, 99.05°WEscondido — 29.25°N, 99.24°WEscondido — 29.16°N, 99.47°WEscondido — 29.18°N, 99.79°WEscondido — 29.14°N, 99.89°WEscondido — 29.09°N, 98.87°WEscondido — 28.92°N, 100.26°WEscondido — 28.64°N, 100.44°WEscondido — 28.56°N, 100.33°WEscondido — 28.53°N, 100.32°WWoodbine — 32.77°N, 97.01°WWoodbine — 32.99°N, 96.95°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.91°WWoodbine — 33.76°N, 96.54°WWoodbine — 33.62°N, 96.61°WWoodbine — 32.55°N, 97.24°WWoodbine — 32.84°N, 97.08°WWoodbine — 33.30°N, 96.99°WWoodbine — 33.80°N, 96.85°WChiwapa — 34.46°N, 88.90°WChiwapa — 34.38°N, 88.98°WChiwapa — 34.36°N, 88.93°WChiwapa — 34.21°N, 88.98°WChiwapa — 34.04°N, 88.93°WKiowa — 37.32°N, 99.75°WKiowa — 37.44°N, 99.08°WKiowa — 37.40°N, 99.02°WKiowa — 37.44°N, 99.18°WKiowa — 38.63°N, 98.10°WProvidence — 31.91°N, 86.17°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.21°WProvidence — 31.78°N, 85.14°WProvidence — 31.70°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.82°N, 84.97°WMarshalltown — 39.78°N, 75.44°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMarshalltown — 39.54°N, 75.72°WMarshalltown — 39.81°N, 75.16°WOwl Creek — 34.17°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 34.82°N, 88.88°WOwl Creek — 34.88°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.87°WPeedee — 33.83°N, 79.25°WPeedee — 33.86°N, 79.39°WPeedee — 34.27°N, 77.95°WPeedee — 35.77°N, 78.64°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WArkadelphia marl — 33.75°N, 93.59°WArkadelphia marl — 33.75°N, 93.64°WArkadelphia marl — 33.73°N, 93.66°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WNavesink — 39.76°N, 75.13°WNavesink — 40.31°N, 74.22°WNavesink — 40.40°N, 74.03°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WRedoak Hollow — 34.37°N, 97.34°WMount Laurel — 40.12°N, 74.55°WMount Laurel — 40.38°N, 74.21°WMount Laurel — 39.77°N, 75.15°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WHookton — 40.98°N, 124.11°WUpper Chalk — 50.60°N, 1.20°WFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.08°EAlisitos — 31.52°N, 116.65°WVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°W

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The named rock units Cliona has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cliona and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cliona and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,853 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 247 sites for Cliona, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

43 references

Each of the 254 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. 31 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 content2

Picture of Cliona

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itClionaidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Grant 1826