Patellispongia oculata

No picture of Patellispongia oculata 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 Patellispongia oculata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PatellispongiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lithistida

Time the record covers

At least 2.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 470.3 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 457.3 Mya.

Ordovician — about 6 of 6 occurrencesOrdovician478–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences470.3 Mya – 468 Mya477.6 Mya456.8 Mya

6 occurrences of Patellispongia oculata on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

6 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

5 formations

Badger Flat — 36.88°N, 118.07°WLos Azules — 30.75°S, 68.75°WAntelope Valley — 39.05°N, 116.73°WShingle Limestone — 38.40°N, 114.97°WSan Juan — 30.58°S, 68.85°W

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

Patellispongia oculata and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Patellispongia oculata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

43 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Patellispongia oculata, 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

5 references

Each of the 6 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 Patellispongia oculata 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 Patellispongia oculata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Patellispongia oculata 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 itPatellispongia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bassler 1927