Pharetronida
Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CalcareaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Calcarea
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Calcarea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Calcarea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Calcarea
Time the record covers
At least 234 million years on record.
The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 293.52 Mya to 52 Mya.
46 occurrences of Pharetronida on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
46 occurrences- Permian13%
- Middle Triassic4%
- Late Triassic17%
- Early Jurassic11%
- Middle Jurassicunder 1%
- Late Jurassic17%
- Early Cretaceous27%
- Late Cretaceous8%
- Eocene2%
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
19 formations
- Misone limestone Formation3
- Recoaro - Upper Serla Formation2
- Cassian Formation2
- Changxing Formation2
- Abadia Formation2
- Sandgate Formation · Lower Greensand Group1
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The named rock units Pharetronida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pharetronida and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Pharetronida and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
827 taxa- Inozoa13 sites
- Bryozoa10 sites
- Tubiphytes9 sites
- Crinoidea7 sites
- Ophthalmidium7 sites
- Brachiopoda6 sites
- Cidaris5 sites
- Colospongia5 sites
- Conocoelia crassa5 sites
- Peronidella5 sites
- Scleractinia5 sites
- Shamovella obscura5 sites
- Terebella5 sites
- Arca4 sites
- Baccanella floriformis4 sites
- Bullopora4 sites
- Chaetetidae4 sites
- Echinoidea4 sites
- Involutina4 sites
- Peronella truncata4 sites
- Pleurotomaria4 sites
- Radiomura cautica4 sites
- Serpula4 sites
- Sollasia ostiolata4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Pharetronida, 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
32 references- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)6
- Jura Vaudois et Neuchatelois4
- Stylothalamia from the Lower Jurassic Misone Limestone of Southern Alps, Italy3
- Sobralispongia densespiculata, a new coralline sponge from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal2
- Facies of Liassic sponge mounds, Central High Atlas, Morocco2
- Anisian (Middle Triassic) buildups of the northern Dolomites (Italy): The recovery of reef communities after the Permian/Triassic crisis2
- Middle to Upper Oxfordian sponges of the Polish Jura2
- Late Cretaceous environments and communities as recorded at Chrtníky (Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic)1
- Internal Structure and Paleoecology of the Lower Permian Uzunbulak Reef Complex of the Tarim Basin, Northwest China1
- Late Paleozoic and Late Triassic limestones from North Palawan Block (Philippines): Microfacies and paleogeographical implications1
- Ein "Tethys-Riff" im Korallenoolith (Oxfodium) von Nordwestdeutschland1
- Upper Triassic Sphinctozoan sponges from Northern Calabria (Southern Italy)1
Each of the 46 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. 20 further references are not listed. 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 Pharetronida
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Hectonichus
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pharetronida 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.
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What may have been alongside itCalcarea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zittel 1878