Corallistidae

Corallistidae is a family of sea sponges.

A picture published with the record for Corallistidae. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
DicranocladinaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lithistida

Time the record covers

At least 131 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 6 of 53 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 53 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 34 of 53 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 53 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 53 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 53 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 53 occurrences158–153 Mya — about 3 occurrences153–148 Mya — about 3 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences134–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences124–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–114 Mya — about 3 occurrences114–109 Mya — about 3 occurrences105–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–90 Mya — about 7 occurrences90–85 Mya — about 3 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 7 occurrences81–76 Mya — about 10 occurrences76–71 Mya — about 7 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences66–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences152.21 Mya20.45 Mya158 Mya13 Mya

53 occurrences of Corallistidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

53 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

9 formations

"Cuvieri-Pläner" — 52.07°N, 10.25°EIlsenburg — 51.83°N, 10.78°ETutuiri Greensand — 43.75°S, 176.67°ETutuiri Greensand — 43.75°S, 176.68°WMiono — 43.40°N, 3.28°WNeuburger Weiß — 48.73°N, 11.18°EChiampo — 45.53°N, 11.25°E"Scaphiten-Pläner" — 52.15°N, 10.15°E"Siphonia Marl" — 51.92°N, 10.47°ESiniscola Marl — 40.59°N, 9.69°E

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The named rock units Corallistidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Corallistidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

613 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Corallistidae, 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

16 references

Each of the 53 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. 4 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 Corallistidae

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Corallistidae was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itDicranocladina through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sollas 1888