Ellipsactinia qinghaiensis
No picture of Ellipsactinia qinghaiensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ellipsactinia qinghaiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EllipsactiniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Porifera
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Porifera
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Porifera
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 205.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Ellipsactinia qinghaiensis 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
1 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Ellipsactinia qinghaiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ellipsactinia qinghaiensis and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Ellipsactinia qinghaiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ellipsactinia qinghaiensis, and this reads all of them.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ellipsactinia qinghaiensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ellipsactinia qinghaiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ellipsactinia qinghaiensis 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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What may have been alongside itEllipsactinia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deng 1982