Phymatella heteropora
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhymatellaPBDB
- 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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Phymatella heteropora on record, most of them in the Late 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
4 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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.
Phymatella heteropora and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Phymatella heteropora and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
247 taxa- Coeloptychium deciminum4 sites
- Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri4 sites
- Jereica polystoma4 sites
- Leptophragma murchisoni4 sites
- Phymatella bulbosa4 sites
- Amphithelion (Amphithelion) macrommata3 sites
- Aulaxinia sulcifera3 sites
- Aulosoma radiciformis3 sites
- Callopegma acaule3 sites
- Chonella tenuis3 sites
- Coeloptychium agaricoides3 sites
- Coeloptychium incisum3 sites
- Coscinopora infundibuliformis3 sites
- Leiochonia cryptoporosa3 sites
- Leptophragma micropora3 sites
- Pachinion scriptum3 sites
- Plinthosella squamosa3 sites
- Plocoscyphia centuncula3 sites
- Propachastrella primaeva3 sites
- Ragadinia rimosa3 sites
- Seliscothon3 sites
- Seliscothon mantelli3 sites
- Sporadoscinia micrommata3 sites
- Sporadoscinia quenstedti3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Phymatella heteropora, 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
2 references- Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia und Silicea incert. sedis [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia and Silicea incert. sedis]3
- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)1
Each of the 4 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 Phymatella heteropora was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Phymatella heteropora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Phymatella heteropora was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPhymatella through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Roemer 1840)