Glomocystospongia gracilis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlomocystospongiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Agelasida
Time the record covers
At least 5.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
10 occurrences of Glomocystospongia gracilis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
10 occurrences- Permian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Glomocystospongia gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Glomocystospongia gracilis and its relatives
PermianWhere Glomocystospongia gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Colospongia cortexifera4 sites
- Preperonidella regulara2 sites
- Sollasia ostiolata2 sites
- Stellispongia2 sites
- Amblysiphonella specialis1 site
- Cavusonella caverna1 site
- Discosiphonella mammilosus1 site
- Djemelia nana1 site
- Intratubospongia osiensis1 site
- Parauvanella minima1 site
- Parauvanella paronai1 site
- Permocorynella ovoidalis1 site
- Preeudea minima1 site
- Preperonidella beipeiensis1 site
- Preperonidella rigbyi1 site
- Prestellispongia paula1 site
- Prestellispongia permica1 site
- Radiotrabeculopora xiangboensis1 site
- Rahbahthalamia bullifera1 site
- Spica spica1 site
- Stellispongiella bacilla1 site
- Stellispongiella porosa1 site
- Stellispongiella reticulata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Glomocystospongia gracilis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Sphinctozoan and Inozoan Sponges from the Permian Reefs of South China6
- Sphinctozoan sponges from the Permian reefs of South China3
- Three additional thalamid sponges from the Upper Permian reefs of Djebel Tebaga (Tunisia)1
Each of the 10 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
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No picture of Glomocystospongia gracilis 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 Glomocystospongia gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glomocystospongia gracilis 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 itGlomocystospongia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rigby et al. 1989