Colospongia dubia

Colospongia dubia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ColospongiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Verticillitida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Verticillitida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Verticillitida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Permian — about 3 of 23 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 23 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 23 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 18 of 23 occurrencesLate Triassic276–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences269–266 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences254–252 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences252–250 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences238–235 Mya — about 5 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 5 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 3 occurrences231–228 Mya — about 3 occurrences228–226 Mya — about 1 occurrence226–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences207–204 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266.9 Mya211.18 Mya276 Mya204 Mya

23 occurrences of Colospongia dubia on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

23 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

16 formations

Cassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.52°N, 12.10°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°EMisfah — 22.78°N, 57.83°EMisfah — 22.92°N, 57.67°ERaibl — 47.36°N, 11.48°ERaibl — 47.33°N, 11.46°EWetterstein — 48.58°N, 20.58°EDachstein — 47.58°N, 14.47°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.58°N, 20.42°EPantokrator limestone — 37.33°N, 23.47°EAksala — 61.07°N, 134.88°WLechkogel — 46.17°N, 13.92°ELechkogel — 46.77°N, 14.45°EWetterstein — 48.51°N, 20.55°EChangxing — 30.05°N, 108.93°EMaokou — 24.02°N, 105.09°ESan Cassiano — 46.65°N, 12.21°ELunz — 47.32°N, 11.29°ERaibl — 47.71°N, 12.62°E

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The named rock units Colospongia dubia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Colospongia dubia and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Colospongia dubia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

772 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Colospongia dubia, 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

18 references

Each of the 23 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. 6 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 content1

Picture of Colospongia dubia

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Colospongia dubia was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Münster 1841)