Medenina laterala
No picture of Medenina laterala 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 Medenina laterala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MedeninaPBDB
- 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 most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Medenina laterala 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
5 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 Medenina laterala 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.
Medenina laterala and its relatives
PermianWhere Medenina laterala and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Intratubospongia osiensis5 sites
- Auriculospongia auriculata4 sites
- Auriculospongia perforata4 sites
- Prestellispongia permica4 sites
- Pseudohimatella pauciporata4 sites
- Radiofibra delicata4 sites
- Stellispongiella bacilla4 sites
- Stellispongiella insculpta4 sites
- Stellispongiella reticulata4 sites
- Exotubispongia virgulata3 sites
- Laccosiphonella merlai3 sites
- Permocorynella ovoidalis3 sites
- Prestellispongia paula3 sites
- Radiotrabeculopora xiangboensis3 sites
- Discosiphonella mammilosus2 sites
- Djemelia amplia2 sites
- Estrellospongia grossa2 sites
- Exotubispongia pustulata2 sites
- Graminospongia girtyi2 sites
- Imbricatocoelia ramosa2 sites
- Imperatoria voluta2 sites
- Parahimatella vesiculata2 sites
- Preeudea minima2 sites
- Prestellispongia bolaria2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Medenina laterala, 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
1 referenceEach of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Medenina laterala 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 Medenina laterala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Medenina laterala was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMedenina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996