Geodia

Geodia is a genus of sea sponge belonging to the family Geodiidae. It is the type genus of its taxonomic family.

Geodia

Paco Cárdenas · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
GeodiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Demospongiae
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Demospongiae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Demospongiae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 318 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.9 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 30 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 30 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 30 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 30 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 30 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 30 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 30 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 30 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 30 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 30 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 30 occurrencesEocene — about 13 of 30 occurrencesOligocene — about 4 of 30 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 30 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 30 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 30 occurrences342–331 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences331–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–103 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences103–92 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences92–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–35 Mya — about 10 occurrences35–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–673 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences330.3 Mya11.63 Mya342 Mya673 ka

30 occurrences of Geodia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

30 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

8 formations

Elmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WUpper Chalk — 52.73°N, 1.35°EPorters Creek — 32.43°N, 88.03°WLagos-Portimao — 37.17°N, 8.22°WCastle Hayne — 35.23°N, 78.05°WObukhov — 48.37°N, 35.41°ESiniscola Marl — 40.59°N, 9.69°ELower Limestone — 55.72°N, 4.76°W

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The named rock units Geodia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Geodia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Geodia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

148 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Geodia, 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

11 references

Each of the 30 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 content2

Picture of Geodia

Credit
Paco Cárdenas
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

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 itGeodiinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1815