Spongonaria
No picture of Spongonaria 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 Spongonaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpongonariinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Spongonaria 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
7 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Spongonaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spongonaria and its relatives
DevonianWhere Spongonaria and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
78 taxa- Favosites3 sites
- Thamnopora3 sites
- Alveolites2 sites
- Acanthophyllum1 site
- Acrospirifer1 site
- Amphipora1 site
- Arctipeltis1 site
- Athyrisina1 site
- Atopostroma1 site
- Basidechenella magna1 site
- Biconostrophia1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Cavanophyllum paramirabile1 site
- Cavanophyllum tcherkessovae1 site
- Chaetetes1 site
- Clathrodictyon1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Dialythophyllum crassiseptatum1 site
- Dialythophyllum cylindricum1 site
- Dialythophyllum lissingenense1 site
- Dialythophyllum spiciferum1 site
- Dimorphosiphonoides sp.1 site
- Exilifrons1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Spongonaria, 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
3 references- Coral/stromatoporoid reef complex, Lower Devonian, southwest Ellesmere Island, N.W.T.5
- Lower and Middle Devonian marine deposits of the Soviet arctic and the correlation with arctic Canada1
- Devonian sections in Guangxi from which pelecypods were collected1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Spongonaria 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 Spongonaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spongonaria 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSpongonariinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Crickmay 1962