Lithistida

Lithistida

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
DemospongiaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 505 million years on record.

The record covers at least 508.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 516 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Cambrian — about 29 of 2506 occurrencesOrdovician — about 410 of 2506 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 125 of 2506 occurrencesDevonian — about 58 of 2506 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 30 of 2506 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 163 of 2506 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 2506 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 2506 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 46 of 2506 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 6 of 2506 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 17 of 2506 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 597 of 2506 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 150 of 2506 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 768 of 2506 occurrencesPaleocene — about 6 of 2506 occurrencesEocene — about 50 of 2506 occurrencesOligocene — about 5 of 2506 occurrencesMiocene — about 44 of 2506 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 2506 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 2506 occurrences526–509 Mya — about 4 occurrences509–491 Mya — about 21 occurrences491–474 Mya — about 77 occurrences474–456 Mya — about 241 occurrences456–439 Mya — about 99 occurrences439–421 Mya — about 123 occurrences421–403 Mya — about 10 occurrences403–386 Mya — about 3 occurrences386–368 Mya — about 34 occurrences368–351 Mya — about 12 occurrences351–333 Mya — about 15 occurrences333–316 Mya — about 8 occurrences316–298 Mya — about 6 occurrences298–281 Mya — about 45 occurrences281–263 Mya — about 82 occurrences263–246 Mya — about 36 occurrences246–228 Mya — about 7 occurrences228–211 Mya — about 16 occurrences211–193 Mya — about 27 occurrences193–175 Mya — about 4 occurrences175–158 Mya — about 359 occurrences158–140 Mya — about 256 occurrences140–123 Mya — about 14 occurrences123–105 Mya — about 101 occurrences105–88 Mya — about 232 occurrences88–70 Mya — about 551 occurrences70–53 Mya — about 30 occurrences53–35 Mya — about 44 occurrences35–18 Mya — about 17 occurrences18–0 Mya — about 36 occurrences508.2 Mya2.58 Mya526 Mya0 Mya

2,506 occurrences of Lithistida on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

2,506 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

213 formations

Jasna Gora — 50.07°N, 19.62°EJasna Gora — 50.45°N, 19.52°EJasna Gora — 50.42°N, 19.35°EJasna Gora — 50.73°N, 19.13°ESan Juan — 30.00°S, 69.00°WSan Juan — 32.00°S, 69.00°WSan Juan — 31.00°S, 69.00°WSan Juan — 31.33°S, 68.55°WSan Juan — 30.50°S, 68.50°WSan Juan — 31.01°S, 68.76°WSan Juan — 30.14°S, 68.52°WSan Juan — 30.33°S, 68.62°WSan Juan — 30.58°S, 68.85°WSan Juan — 30.30°S, 68.82°WSan Juan — 30.41°S, 68.69°WIlsenburg — 51.90°N, 10.67°EIlsenburg — 51.83°N, 10.78°EDelorme — 62.40°N, 127.07°WCape Phillips — 75.14°N, 93.90°WCape Phillips — 75.75°N, 94.40°WCape Phillips — 75.27°N, 95.97°WMingan — 50.20°N, 63.67°WMingan — 50.20°N, 63.83°WMingan — 50.22°N, 64.12°WMingan — 50.21°N, 63.56°WMingan — 50.20°N, 63.35°WBone Spring — 31.46°N, 104.91°WBone Spring — 31.50°N, 104.95°WBone Spring — 31.43°N, 104.93°WBone Spring — 31.90°N, 104.88°WMalongulli — 33.58°S, 148.89°ENeuburger Weiß — 48.73°N, 11.18°E"Siphonia Marl" — 51.92°N, 10.47°EUpper Greensand — 50.59°N, 1.24°WUpper Greensand — 51.21°N, 2.18°WUpper Greensand — 51.34°N, 1.76°WUpper Greensand — 51.08°N, 1.17°E"Scaphiten-Pläner" — 52.15°N, 10.15°E"Scaphiten-Pläner" — 51.90°N, 11.05°EBenbolt — 35.91°N, 84.09°WBenbolt — 37.10°N, 81.34°WBenbolt — 37.00°N, 81.00°WBenbolt — 37.02°N, 81.63°WBenbolt — 37.22°N, 81.36°WBenbolt — 37.23°N, 81.10°WBenbolt — 37.23°N, 81.32°WBenbolt — 37.08°N, 81.71°WBenbolt — 37.10°N, 81.56°WBenbolt — 37.11°N, 81.52°WBenbolt — 37.27°N, 81.00°WBenbolt — 37.00°N, 81.67°WBenbolt — 36.19°N, 83.93°WKapp Starostin — 77.03°N, 16.20°EKapp Starostin — 77.71°N, 14.69°EKapp Starostin — 78.08°N, 13.80°EAhlen — 51.75°N, 8.03°EAhlen — 51.72°N, 8.03°EAhlen — 51.77°N, 8.05°EAhlen — 51.72°N, 7.93°EAhlen — 51.72°N, 7.85°EKindblade — 34.93°N, 98.73°WKindblade — 34.38°N, 96.93°WKindblade — 34.37°N, 97.13°WKindblade — 34.42°N, 97.27°WKindblade — 34.97°N, 98.63°WAntelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.67°WAntelope Valley — 39.09°N, 116.85°WAntelope Valley — 36.78°N, 115.89°WAntelope Valley — 38.53°N, 116.40°WAntelope Valley — 39.00°N, 116.62°WAntelope Valley — 39.05°N, 116.73°W"Cuvieri-Pläner" — 52.07°N, 10.25°E"Cuvieri-Pläner" — 52.15°N, 10.32°E"Cuvieri-Pläner" — 51.97°N, 10.40°EBilá — 49.98°N, 15.60°EChiampo — 45.53°N, 11.25°EZawodzie — 50.82°N, 19.13°EZawodzie — 50.43°N, 19.55°EZawodzie — 50.47°N, 19.55°EBadger Flat — 36.94°N, 118.07°WBadger Flat — 36.95°N, 118.08°WCathedral Mountain — 30.41°N, 103.11°WCathedral Mountain — 30.30°N, 103.30°WVirgin Hills — 18.73°S, 126.08°EVirgin Hills — 18.29°S, 125.87°E

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The named rock units Lithistida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 189 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,027 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lithistida and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Lithistida and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

3,101 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 623 sites for Lithistida, and this reads 240 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

288 references

Each of the 2,506 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. 276 further references are not listed. 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 Lithistida

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDemospongiae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schmidt 1870)