Spongioalveolites
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AlveolitinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At most 29 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Spongioalveolites 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
10 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
7 formations
- Buechel Formation3
- Torringen Formation2
- Santa Lucia Formation1
- Portilla Formation1
- Grevenstein Formation1
- Odershausen Formation1
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The named rock units Spongioalveolites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spongioalveolites and its relatives
DevonianWhere Spongioalveolites and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Acanthophyllum1 site
- Alveolitella1 site
- Alveolites1 site
- Alveolites suborbicularis1 site
- Atelodictyon1 site
- Chaetetella1 site
- Crassialveolites1 site
- Disphyllum1 site
- Favosites1 site
- Phillipsastrea1 site
- Phillipsastrea givetica1 site
- Smithiphyllum1 site
- Spinophyllum1 site
- Thamnophyllum1 site
- Thamnopora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Spongioalveolites, 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
3 references- Alveolitiden und Heliolitiden aus dem Mittel- und Oberdevon des Bergischen Landes (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge) [Alveolitids and heliolitids from the Middle and Upper Devonian of the Bergisches Land (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge)]7
- Devonian reef types in the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain) and their faunal composition2
- Spinophyllum Wedekind, 1922 (Anthozoa, Rugosa), in the Lower Givetian (Devonian) of the Bohemian Massif1
Each of the 10 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
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No picture of Spongioalveolites 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 Spongioalveolites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spongioalveolites 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 itAlveolitinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Iven 1980