Cribrospongia

Cribrospongia is an extinct genus of prehistoric sponges in the family Cribrospongiidae. The species C. elegans is from the Jurassic period and has been found in Germany.

Cribrospongia

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
CribrospongiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 142 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 244.4 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 91 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 91 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 91 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 91 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 91 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 86 of 91 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 91 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 91 occurrences247–242 Mya — about 2 occurrences242–237 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–159 Mya — about 11 occurrences159–153 Mya — about 59 occurrences153–148 Mya — about 14 occurrences148–143 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–96 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences243.43 Mya100.5 Mya247 Mya91 Mya

91 occurrences of Cribrospongia on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

91 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

La Manga — 35.95°S, 69.98°WLa Manga — 38.80°S, 70.20°WZawodzie — 50.82°N, 19.13°EZawodzie — 50.43°N, 19.55°EZawodzie — 50.47°N, 19.55°ECalcaires Lites — 45.78°N, 5.52°EPeral — 37.12°N, 8.18°WCouches de Birmensdorf — 46.25°N, 5.67°EJasna Gora — 50.07°N, 19.62°EJasna Gora — 50.42°N, 19.35°EQingyan — 26.34°N, 106.69°Ebrachiopod-limestone — 45.70°N, 11.22°EMiono — 43.40°N, 3.28°W

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The named rock units Cribrospongia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 68 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cribrospongia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Cribrospongia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

505 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Cribrospongia, 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

21 references

Each of the 91 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. 8 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 Cribrospongia

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cribrospongia 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCribrospongiidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1849