Heliospongia

Heliospongia

Yale Peabody Museum · 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
HeliospongiidaePBDB
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 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 315.2 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 6 of 48 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 42 of 48 occurrencesPermian325–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–320 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences320–318 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 2 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 2 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 2 occurrences292–289 Mya — about 2 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 2 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 2 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 2 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 2 occurrences281–278 Mya — about 2 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 2 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 2 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences270–267 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 3 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 6 occurrences263–261 Mya — about 8 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 4 occurrences315.2 Mya264.28 Mya325 Mya259 Mya

48 occurrences of Heliospongia 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

48 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

16 formations

Lenox Hills — 30.32°N, 103.23°WLenox Hills — 30.36°N, 103.21°WLenox Hills — 30.25°N, 103.35°WLenox Hills — 30.25°N, 103.35°WLenox Hills — 30.21°N, 103.40°WCapitan Limestone — 32.18°N, 104.35°WCapitan Limestone — 32.12°N, 104.45°WBone Spring — 31.32°N, 104.88°WBone Spring — 31.45°N, 104.90°WCapitan — 32.19°N, 104.36°WCapitan — 32.15°N, 104.50°WGraford — 33.23°N, 97.83°WDjebel Tebaga — 33.41°N, 10.17°EDjebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex — 33.37°N, 10.18°ENeal Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.13°WNeal Ranch — 30.35°N, 103.15°WHess — 30.37°N, 103.15°WSkinner Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.21°WMaokou — 31.12°N, 120.30°EMaokou — 25.50°N, 106.26°ELaborcita — 33.10°N, 105.98°WSan Emiliano — 42.95°N, 5.97°WSaikra Biohermal Complex — 33.45°N, 10.30°EHueco — 31.39°N, 105.63°WLas Delicias — 26.43°N, 102.88°W

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The named rock units Heliospongia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heliospongia and its relatives

Permian

Where Heliospongia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

525 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Heliospongia, 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

12 references

Each of the 48 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 Heliospongia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Heliospongia 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 itHeliospongiidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Girty 1908