Plocoscyphia fenestrata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlocoscyphiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 66 Mya.
9 occurrences of Plocoscyphia fenestrata 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
9 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Plocoscyphia fenestrata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Plocoscyphia fenestrata and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Plocoscyphia fenestrata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Becksia haugi4 sites
- Xenoschrammenum fragile4 sites
- Laocoetis virgatula3 sites
- Microblastidium gaultinum3 sites
- Plocoscyphia communis3 sites
- Reticraticularia albiensis3 sites
- Camerospongia elongata2 sites
- Craticularia stellata2 sites
- Leptophragma2 sites
- Pachyteichisma gresslyi2 sites
- Plectascus labrosus2 sites
- Sarophora aptiensis2 sites
- Strephinia convoluta2 sites
- Trochobolus dentatus2 sites
- Aphrocallistes macroporus1 site
- Aphrocallistes verrucosus1 site
- Coeloptychium1 site
- Concinnithyris obesa1 site
- Cribrospongia1 site
- Eurete1 site
- Exanthesis (Exanthesis) reticulata1 site
- Exanthesis aptiensis1 site
- Guettardiscyphia bisalata cruciata1 site
- Guettardiscyphia stellata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Plocoscyphia fenestrata, 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
4 references- Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Cretace inferieur4
- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)3
- Die Schwammfauna der Oberkreide von Neuburg (Donau) [The Upper Cretaceous sponge fauna from Neuburg (Donau)]1
- Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Crétacé supérieur du nord de la France1
Each of the 9 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 Plocoscyphia fenestrata 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 Plocoscyphia fenestrata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plocoscyphia fenestrata 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 itPlocoscyphia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Smith and Toulmin 1848)