Laocoetis tubifera
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LaocoetisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At most 8.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 157.9 Mya and 149.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Laocoetis tubifera on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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
4 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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.
Laocoetis tubifera and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Laocoetis tubifera and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
88 taxa- Cribrospongia4 sites
- Cylindrophyma milleporata3 sites
- Cypellia rugosa3 sites
- Hexactinosa3 sites
- Hyalotragos patella3 sites
- Hyalotragos pezizoides3 sites
- Ordinatus texturatus3 sites
- Platychonia schlotheimi3 sites
- Porospongia marginata3 sites
- Ramispongia ramosa3 sites
- Chonellopsis folium2 sites
- Chonellopsis striata2 sites
- Cnemidiastrum (Tremastrum) pluristellatum2 sites
- Cnemopeltia (Cnemopeltia) rimulosum2 sites
- Coscinodiscus2 sites
- Cribrospongia reticulata2 sites
- Cypellia trabeculata2 sites
- Dictyonocoelia lineatum2 sites
- Dictyonocoelia schweiggeri2 sites
- Heterostinia2 sites
- Hyalotragos rugosum2 sites
- Keuppiella pertusa2 sites
- Laocoetis clathrata2 sites
- Laocoetis procumbens2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Laocoetis tubifera, 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
3 references- Upper Jurassic siliceous sponges from the Swabian Alb: taxonomy and paleoecology2
- Die Schwamm-Biohermfazies der nördlichen Fankenalb (Urspring; Oxford, Malm): Mikrofazies, Palökologie, Paläontologie1
- Middle to Upper Oxfordian sponges of the Polish Jura1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Laocoetis tubifera was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Laocoetis tubifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Laocoetis tubifera 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 itLaocoetis through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schrammen 1937)