Spongodiscus

No picture of Spongodiscus 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 Spongodiscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpongodiscidaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 149 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 152.21 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 22 of 425 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 425 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 21 of 425 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 41 of 425 occurrencesEocene — about 14 of 425 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 425 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 425 occurrencesPliocene — about 17 of 425 occurrencesPleistocene — about 310 of 425 occurrences155–150 Mya — about 3 occurrences150–145 Mya — about 15 occurrences145–140 Mya — about 4 occurrences104–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence93–88 Mya — about 3 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 5 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences78–72 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences72–67 Mya — about 8 occurrences67–62 Mya — about 35 occurrences62–57 Mya — about 7 occurrences57–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 5 occurrences36–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–5.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.2–0 Mya — about 327 occurrences149.2 Mya129 ka155 Mya0 Mya

425 occurrences of Spongodiscus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

425 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

5 formations

Mead Hill — 41.92°S, 174.07°EAmeghino — 64.47°S, 58.97°WLower Kanguk — 78.18°N, 99.77°WAnchorage — 62.60°S, 61.17°WKirsanovskaya — 52.55°N, 42.57°E

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The named rock units Spongodiscus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 361 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spongodiscus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Spongodiscus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

523 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 393 sites for Spongodiscus, and this reads 240 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

29 references

Each of the 425 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. 17 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

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No picture of Spongodiscus 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 Spongodiscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Spongodiscus 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 itSpongodiscidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1854