Spongiomorpha acyclica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpongiomorphaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Hydrozoa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hydrozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hydrozoa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hydrozoa
Time the record covers
At most 36 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Spongiomorpha acyclica on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
7 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Spongiomorpha acyclica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spongiomorpha acyclica and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Spongiomorpha acyclica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
177 taxa- Colospongia6 sites
- Bivalvia5 sites
- Crinoidea5 sites
- Echinoidea5 sites
- Montlivaltia5 sites
- Radiomura cautica5 sites
- Solenopora5 sites
- Cryptocoelia4 sites
- Eocomoseris ramosa4 sites
- Gastropoda4 sites
- Ophthalmidium4 sites
- Peronidella4 sites
- Retiophyllia clathrata4 sites
- Stromatomorpha4 sites
- Acicularia3 sites
- Annaecoelia interiecta3 sites
- Annaecoelia mirabilis3 sites
- Astraeomorpha confusa3 sites
- Astraeomorpha crassisepta3 sites
- Baccanella3 sites
- Bacinella3 sites
- Bacinella irregularis3 sites
- Bryozoa3 sites
- Cayeuxia3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Spongiomorpha acyclica, 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
4 references- Riffbiotope im Karn und Nor (Obertrias) der Tethys: Entwicklung, Einschnitte und Diversitätsmuster [Reef biotopes of the Carnian and Norian (Upper Triassic) in the Thetys: Development, incisions and diversitypatterns]2
- Fazielle und paläontologische Untersuchungen in oberrhätischen Riffen (Feichtenstein- und Gruberriff bei Hintersee, Salzburg, Nördliche Kalkalpen)2
- Paleoecology, structure, and distribution of Triassic coral buildups in western North America2
- Facies and Paleoecology of two Upper Triassic Reef-complexes of the Northern Calcareous Alps ("Upper Rhaetian" Reef Limestones, Salzburg, Austria)1
Each of the 7 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 Spongiomorpha acyclica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Spongiomorpha acyclica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spongiomorpha acyclica 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 itSpongiomorpha through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frech 1890