Leiospongia

Leiospongia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeiofungiinaePBDB
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 4.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 244.4 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 17 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 16 of 17 occurrencesLate Triassic245–244 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 2 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 3 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 3 occurrences235–235 Mya — about 3 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 3 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 2 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241.464 Mya237 Mya244.9 Mya226.8 Mya

17 occurrences of Leiospongia on record. 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

17 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

3 formations

Cassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.96°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ESan Cassiano — 46.65°N, 12.21°EWetterstein — 48.47°N, 20.53°E

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The named rock units Leiospongia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

516 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Leiospongia, 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

6 references

Each of the 17 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 Leiospongia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Leiospongia 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1849