Siphonia

Siphonia is a genus of extinct hallirhoid demosponges of the Lower and Upper Cretaceous, from about 125 to 66 million years ago. They lived in the Western Tethys Ocean, in what is now Europe.

Siphonia

Apokryltaros · CC BY 2.5 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
SiphoniinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lithistida

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 45 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 45 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 36 of 45 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 45 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 45 occurrencesEocene145–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–113 Mya — about 1 occurrence113–110 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 3 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 6 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 5 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 4 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 5 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 5 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 3 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113.2 Mya48.07 Mya145 Mya39 Mya

45 occurrences of Siphonia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

45 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

8 formations

Bilá — 49.98°N, 15.60°ECraie Chloritée — 49.32°N, 0.03°WCraie Chloritée — 49.23°N, 0.26°W"Scaphiten-Pläner" — 52.15°N, 10.15°E"Scaphiten-Pläner" — 51.90°N, 11.05°EUpper Greensand — 50.59°N, 1.24°WUpper Greensand — 51.21°N, 2.18°WRegensburger Grünsandstein — 48.90°N, 11.93°EMelovatka — 50.88°N, 44.74°E"Siphonia Marl" — 51.92°N, 10.47°EChiampo — 45.53°N, 11.25°E

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The named rock units Siphonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Siphonia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

667 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Siphonia, 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

14 references

Each of the 45 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Siphonia

Credit
Apokryltaros
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goldfuss 1826