Pelicaspongia cupula

No picture of Pelicaspongia cupula 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 cupula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PelicaspongiaPBDB
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 most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 372.15 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 5 of 5 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 5 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences371–371 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences370–370 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences369–369 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences368–368 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences361–361 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372.6 Mya358.4 Mya

5 occurrences of Pelicaspongia cupula 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

5 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

3 formations

Napier — 17.68°S, 125.07°ENapier — 17.42°S, 125.98°EVirgin Hills — 18.73°S, 126.08°EVirgin Hills — 18.29°S, 125.87°EWindjana Limestone — 17.40°S, 124.95°E

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

Pelicaspongia cupula and its relatives

Devonian

Where Pelicaspongia cupula and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Pelicaspongia cupula, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 references

Each 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. 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 Pelicaspongia cupula 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 cupula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pelicaspongia cupula was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPelicaspongia through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rigby 1986