Porocypellia piriformis
No picture of Porocypellia piriformis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Porocypellia piriformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PorocypelliaPBDB
- 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 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 152.21 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 143.1 Mya.
5 occurrences of Porocypellia piriformis on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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- Late Jurassic100%
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.
Porocypellia piriformis and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Porocypellia piriformis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
119 taxa- Cypellia rugosa4 sites
- Porospongia marginata4 sites
- Sporadopyle obliqua4 sites
- Trochobolus texatus4 sites
- Chonellopsis striata3 sites
- Cnemidiastrum stellatum3 sites
- Cnemopeltia (Cnemopeltia) rimulosum3 sites
- Craticularia parallela3 sites
- Cribrospongia3 sites
- Cribrospongia elegans3 sites
- Cribrospongia reticulata3 sites
- Cylindrophyma milleporata3 sites
- Dictyonocoelia schweiggeri3 sites
- Hyalotragos rugosum3 sites
- Keuppiella pertusa3 sites
- Ordinatus texturatus3 sites
- Sphenaulax costata3 sites
- Stauroderma lochense3 sites
- Tremaphorus apertus3 sites
- Trochobolus cupulus3 sites
- Verrucocoelia verrucosa3 sites
- Aka muelleri2 sites
- Cnemidiastrum (Tremastrum) pluristellatum2 sites
- Coscinodiscus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Porocypellia piriformis, 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
3 references- Upper Jurassic siliceous sponges from the Swabian Alb: taxonomy and paleoecology3
- Die Schwamm-Biohermfazies der nördlichen Fankenalb (Urspring; Oxford, Malm): Mikrofazies, Palökologie, Paläontologie1
- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)1
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 Porocypellia piriformis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Porocypellia piriformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Porocypellia piriformis 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 itPorocypellia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1833)