Samus

Samus is a genus of sea sponges. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Samidae and is represented by a single species, Samus anonymus.

A picture published with the record for Samus. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SamidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spirophorida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Spirophorida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Spirophorida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiocene38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33.9 Mya13.82 Mya38.2 Mya11.1 Mya

2 occurrences of Samus on record. 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

2 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

2 formations

Lagos-Portimao — 37.17°N, 8.22°WObukhov — 48.37°N, 35.41°E

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

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Samus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 2 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 Samus

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1867