Regispongia

No picture of Regispongia 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 Regispongia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
WewokellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Porifera
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Heteractinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Heteractinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Heteractinida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Heteractinida

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.6 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 19 of 20 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 20 occurrencesPermian337–334 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences334–332 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences329–326 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 2 occurrences324–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences311–308 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences308–305 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 2 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 7 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 4 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–261 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences261–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences323.6 Mya264.28 Mya337 Mya258 Mya

20 occurrences of Regispongia on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

20 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

5 formations

Graham — 32.73°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.27°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.20°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.13°N, 98.16°WGraham — 33.10°N, 98.40°WGraham — 33.16°N, 98.17°WChainman Shale — 38.88°N, 113.82°WChainman Shale — 39.40°N, 113.77°WChainman Shale — 39.18°N, 113.72°WManning Canyon Shale — 40.42°N, 112.17°WManning Canyon Shale — 40.32°N, 112.27°WJamal — 32.87°N, 50.07°EMagdalena — 31.95°N, 106.60°W

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The named rock units Regispongia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Regispongia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Regispongia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

180 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Regispongia, 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

5 references

Each of the 20 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 Regispongia 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 Regispongia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Regispongia was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itWewokellidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rigby 1978