Rossellidae

Rossellidae is a family of glass sponges belonging to the order Lyssacinosa. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution and is found at a large range of depths.

Rossellidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LyssacinosaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lyssacinosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lyssacinosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lyssacinosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 424 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Ordovician — about 4 of 12 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 12 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 12 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 12 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 12 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 12 occurrences478–463 Mya — about 1 occurrence463–448 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences448–432 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–80 Mya — about 7 occurrences49–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–18 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences458.2 Mya33.9 Mya478 Mya18 Mya

12 occurrences of Rossellidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

12 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

4 formations

Arnager Limestone — 55.05°N, 14.78°EWenchang — 30.50°N, 119.37°EWenchang — 30.63°N, 119.47°EGilwern Volcanic — 52.24°N, 3.38°WSeptarienton — 52.79°N, 14.00°E

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

Rossellidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Rossellidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

61 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Rossellidae, 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 12 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 content1

Picture of Rossellidae

Credit
Internet Archive Book Images
Licence
No restrictions
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itLyssacinosa through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1872