Ramispongia ramosa
No picture of Ramispongia ramosa 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 Ramispongia ramosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RamispongiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hexactinosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hexactinosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hexactinosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 152.21 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 159 Mya to 149.2 Mya.
14 occurrences of Ramispongia ramosa 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
14 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Ramispongia ramosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ramispongia ramosa and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Ramispongia ramosa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
124 taxa- Cypellia rugosa14 sites
- Cylindrophyma milleporata11 sites
- Cribrospongia10 sites
- Hyalotragos patella10 sites
- Hyalotragos pezizoides10 sites
- Platychonia schlotheimi10 sites
- Cnemopeltia (Cnemopeltia) rimulosum9 sites
- Dictyonocoelia schweiggeri9 sites
- Keuppiella pertusa9 sites
- Ordinatus texturatus9 sites
- Sporadopyle obliqua9 sites
- Stauroderma lochense9 sites
- Cribrospongia reticulata8 sites
- Dictyonocoelia lineatum8 sites
- Hexactinosa8 sites
- Cnemidiastrum stellatum7 sites
- Chonellopsis striata6 sites
- Craticularia parallela6 sites
- Cypellia trabeculata6 sites
- Linonema calyx6 sites
- Porospongia marginata6 sites
- Pyrgochonia (Actinostrombus) radiata6 sites
- Discophyma5 sites
- Laocoetis clathrata5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Ramispongia ramosa, 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- Upper Jurassic siliceous sponges from the Swabian Alb: taxonomy and paleoecology8
- Middle to Upper Oxfordian sponges of the Polish Jura6
Each of the 14 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Ramispongia ramosa 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 Ramispongia ramosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ramispongia ramosa 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 itRamispongia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Quenstedt 1877)