Phymaraphiniidae

Phymaraphiniidae is a family of sea sponges.

Racodiscula incrustans Vacelet & Vasseur, 1971, a relative of Phymaraphiniidae — not Phymaraphiniidae itself

Not Phymaraphiniidae. This is Racodiscula incrustans Vacelet & Vasseur, 1971, a relative — both are Phymaraphiniidae.

Naturalis Biodiversity Center · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
TetracladinaPBDB
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 75 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 8 of 52 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 41 of 52 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 52 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 52 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 52 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 1 occurrence111–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence93–90 Mya — about 4 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 1 occurrence87–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–81 Mya — about 9 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 9 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 9 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 7 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences113.2 Mya37.71 Mya123 Mya32 Mya

52 occurrences of Phymaraphiniidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

52 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

Ilsenburg — 51.83°N, 10.78°ENeuburger Weiß — 48.73°N, 11.18°EAhlen — 51.72°N, 8.03°EAhlen — 51.70°N, 7.92°EObukhov — 48.37°N, 35.41°EObukhov — 48.42°N, 34.31°EMiono — 43.40°N, 3.28°W"Scaphiten-Pläner" — 52.15°N, 10.15°E"Siphonia Marl" — 51.92°N, 10.47°E

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The named rock units Phymaraphiniidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phymaraphiniidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Phymaraphiniidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

449 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Phymaraphiniidae, 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

11 references

Each of the 52 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 Racodiscula incrustans Vacelet & Vasseur, 1971

Source
GBIF
Credit
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Phymaraphiniidae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTetracladina through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schrammen 1910