Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri
Not Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri. This is Doryderma roemeri (Hinde, 1884), a relative — both are Dorydermatidae.
via GBIF · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- Doryderma (Brochodora)PBDB
- 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 26 million years on record.
The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
17 occurrences of Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
17 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
345 taxa- Jereica polystoma8 sites
- Pachinion scriptum8 sites
- Pachycothon giganteum8 sites
- Ragadinia rimosa8 sites
- Seliscothon8 sites
- Callopegma acaule7 sites
- Coeloptychium deciminum7 sites
- Phymatella bulbosa7 sites
- Verruculina tenuis7 sites
- Aulaxinia sulcifera6 sites
- Aulosoma radiciformis6 sites
- Chonella tenuis6 sites
- Coscinostoma fragilis6 sites
- Doryderma (Brochodora) ramusculus6 sites
- Leiochonia cryptoporosa6 sites
- Plinthosella squamosa6 sites
- Propachastrella primaeva6 sites
- Scytalia terebrata6 sites
- Verruculina seriatopora6 sites
- Heterostinia obliqua5 sites
- Homalodoriana ficus5 sites
- Homalodoriana plana5 sites
- Leptophragma murchisoni5 sites
- Porosphaera globularis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri, 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
6 references- Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia und Silicea incert. sedis [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia and Silicea incert. sedis]7
- Siliceous sponges from the Upper Cretaceous of Poland, part 1: Tetraxonia4
- Spongiaires du Santonien-Campanien de l''Autoroute A10 (France)2
- Die Spongien der Ilsenburg-Entwicklung (Oberes Unter-Campan) der Subherzynen Kreidemulde [Sponges of the Ilsenburg Formation (Upper Lower Campanian) of the Subhercynian Cretaceous Basin2
- An unusual poriferan community in the Albian of Islares (north Spain): palaeoenvironmental and tectonic implications1
- Die Schwammfauna der Oberkreide von Neuburg (Donau) [The Upper Cretaceous sponge fauna from Neuburg (Donau)]1
Each of the 17 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. 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 Doryderma roemeri (Hinde, 1884)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri 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.
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What may have been alongside itDoryderma (Brochodora) through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hinde 1883)