Euretidae

Euretidae is a family of glass sponges in the order Sceptrulophora.

Euretidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HexactinosaPBDB
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 360 million years on record.

The record covers at least 372.15 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 375.2 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 255 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 255 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 255 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 255 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 255 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 255 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 255 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 255 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 123 of 255 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 17 of 255 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 83 of 255 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 255 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 255 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 255 occurrencesMiocene — about 8 of 255 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 255 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 255 occurrences383–370 Mya — about 2 occurrences242–230 Mya — about 2 occurrences230–217 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences204–191 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences191–179 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences179–166 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences166–153 Mya — about 100 occurrences153–140 Mya — about 25 occurrences140–128 Mya — about 11 occurrences128–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–102 Mya — about 3 occurrences102–89 Mya — about 22 occurrences89–77 Mya — about 44 occurrences77–64 Mya — about 19 occurrences64–51 Mya — about 5 occurrences51–38 Mya — about 5 occurrences38–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences372.15 Mya11.63 Mya383 Mya0 Mya

255 occurrences of Euretidae on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

255 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

24 formations

Jasna Gora — 50.07°N, 19.62°EJasna Gora — 50.45°N, 19.52°EJasna Gora — 50.42°N, 19.35°EJasna Gora — 50.73°N, 19.13°EWhite Limestone — 55.22°N, 6.40°WCalcaires Lites — 45.78°N, 5.52°ECouches de Birmensdorf — 46.25°N, 5.67°EWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 51.58°N, 1.47°WUpper Chalk — 51.68°N, 0.57°WUpper Chalk — 51.37°N, 0.45°EUpper Chalk — 50.78°N, 0.00°EUpper Chalk — 50.65°N, 1.57°WUpper Chalk — 50.60°N, 1.20°WLa Manga — 35.95°S, 69.98°WTutuiri Greensand — 43.75°S, 176.68°WLower Chalk — 50.73°N, 0.23°EZawodzie — 50.82°N, 19.13°EZawodzie — 50.47°N, 19.55°ETakatika Grit — 43.75°S, 176.68°WHanwang — 31.45°N, 104.17°ELincoln Creek — 47.28°N, 123.52°WLincoln Creek — 46.49°N, 123.80°WIlsenburg — 51.90°N, 10.67°ELewes Nodular Chalk — 51.90°N, 0.26°WGlauconitic Chalk — 54.82°N, 5.70°WSewerby Rocks — 54.10°N, 0.15°WLiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EVic Marls — 41.93°N, 2.25°EFulra Limestone — 23.83°N, 68.77°EPatcham — 23.70°N, 69.05°EChiampo — 45.53°N, 11.25°E"Cuvieri-Pläner" — 52.07°N, 10.25°ECastle Hayne — 34.63°N, 77.73°W

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The named rock units Euretidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 156 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Euretidae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

1,066 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Euretidae, 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

42 references

Each of the 255 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. 29 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 Euretidae

Credit
Internet Archive Book Images
Licence
No restrictions
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Zittel 1877