Pelicaspongia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PelicaspongiidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Amphidiscosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Amphidiscosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Amphidiscosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At least 50 million years on record.
The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 358.86 Mya.
10 occurrences of Pelicaspongia on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
10 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Virgin Hills Formation3
- Windjana Limestone Formation2
- Napier Formation2
- Sadler Formation1
- Mount Hawk Formation · Fairholme Group1
- Douro Formation1
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The named rock units Pelicaspongia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pelicaspongia and its relatives
DevonianWhere Pelicaspongia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
1 taxonThe Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pelicaspongia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
4 references- Late Devonian sponges of Western Australia6
- Palaeoecology of a post-extinction reef: Famennian (Late Devonian) of the Canning Basin, North-Western Australia2
- Sponge fauna of the Upper Silurian Read Bay Formation, Somerset Island, District of Franklin, Arctic Canada1
- Two new Upper Devonian hexactinellid sponges from Alberta1
Each of the 10 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
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No picture of Pelicaspongia 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 Pelicaspongia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pelicaspongia 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 itPelicaspongiidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rigby 1970