Spongentactinia

No picture of Spongentactinia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Spongentactinia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EntactiniidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Radiolaria

Time the record covers

At least 131 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 250.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 248.6 Mya.

Devonian — about 8 of 12 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPermian — about 2 of 12 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 2 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrences391–386 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences386–381 Mya — about 3 occurrences381–376 Mya — about 4 occurrences376–371 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences255–251 Mya — about 2 occurrences251–246 Mya — about 2 occurrences382.31 Mya250.8 Mya391 Mya246 Mya

12 occurrences of Spongentactinia on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

Gogo — 18.43°S, 125.90°EGogo — 18.57°S, 125.95°EDalong — 22.27°N, 107.69°EBac Thuy — 21.84°N, 106.73°EBac Thuy — 21.85°N, 106.74°EChangyuchun — 25.50°N, 100.50°E

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The named rock units Spongentactinia 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.

Spongentactinia and its relatives

Devonian

Where Spongentactinia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

266 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Spongentactinia, 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

7 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 content0

No picture of Spongentactinia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Spongentactinia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Spongentactinia 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.

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What may have been alongside itEntactiniidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nazarov 1975