Rhabdactinia depressa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhabdactiniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Agelasida
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Rhabdactinia depressa on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
8 occurrences- Permian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Rhabdactinia depressa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rhabdactinia depressa and its relatives
PermianWhere Rhabdactinia depressa and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Intrasporeocoelia hubeiensis3 sites
- Radiotrabeculopora maokoui3 sites
- Stellispongia3 sites
- Cavusonella caverna2 sites
- Colospongia2 sites
- Intratubospongia minima2 sites
- Peronidella2 sites
- Rhabdactinia complexa2 sites
- Stellispongiella porosa2 sites
- Tebagathalamia cylindrica2 sites
- Amblysiphonella ramosa1 site
- Amblysiphonella spinosa1 site
- Balatonia robusta1 site
- Djemelia nana1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Heptatubispongia symmetrica1 site
- Imbricatocoelia elongata1 site
- Imbricatocoelia irregulara1 site
- Imbricatocoelia obconica1 site
- Imbricatocoelia ramosa1 site
- Imperatoria fistulata1 site
- Intratubospongia tenuiperforata1 site
- Parauvanella minima1 site
- Pectineacea indet.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Rhabdactinia depressa, 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- Sphinctozoan sponges from the Permian reefs of South China6
- Three additional thalamid sponges from the Upper Permian reefs of Djebel Tebaga (Tunisia)2
Each of the 8 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Rhabdactinia depressa 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 Rhabdactinia depressa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rhabdactinia depressa 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 itRhabdactinia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rigby et al. 1989