Oculospongia

Oculospongia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HolcospongiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Calcaronea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Calcaronea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Calcaronea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Calcarea

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 28 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 18 of 28 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 28 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 28 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 28 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–163 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences160–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 2 occurrences153–149 Mya — about 8 occurrences149–145 Mya — about 5 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences142–138 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–135 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 2 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 2 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 1 occurrence124–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–117 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences82–78 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences165.3 Mya72.2 Mya170 Mya64 Mya

28 occurrences of Oculospongia 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

28 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

7 formations

Alcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°ESandgate — 51.67°N, 1.58°WZone de Pierre jaune — 47.05°N, 7.08°ECaillasses de la Basse Ecarde — 49.00°N, 0.00°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EMaastricht — 50.85°N, 5.69°E

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The named rock units Oculospongia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oculospongia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Oculospongia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

537 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Oculospongia, 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 28 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 Oculospongia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
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 itHolcospongiinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fromentel 1860