Spongopallium contortum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpongopalliumPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 3.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 239.48 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 244.4 Mya to 237 Mya.
15 occurrences of Spongopallium contortum on record, most of them in the Middle 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
15 occurrences- Middle 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 Spongopallium contortum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spongopallium contortum and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Spongopallium contortum and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
177 taxa- Triassocampe scalaris11 sites
- Eptingium manfredi10 sites
- Cryptostephanidium cornigerum9 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera coccostyla9 sites
- Falcispongus calcaneum8 sites
- Oertlispongus inaequispinosus8 sites
- Pentaspongodiscus symmetricus8 sites
- Plafkerium8 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera japonica8 sites
- Staurolonche granulosum8 sites
- Hozmadia reticulata7 sites
- Poulpus curvispinus7 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera longispinosa7 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera tenuis7 sites
- Silicarmiger costatus7 sites
- Tiborella magnidentata7 sites
- Hinedorcus alatus6 sites
- Nofrema trispinosa6 sites
- Pentactinocarpus tetracanthus6 sites
- Pentaspongodiscus mesotriassicus6 sites
- Stauracontium6 sites
- Triassocampe6 sites
- Triassothamnus verticillatus6 sites
- Archaeosemantis cristianensis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Spongopallium contortum, 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
5 references- Middle Triassic radiolarians from Slovenia (Yugoslavia)9
- Radiolarian evolution during the Permian and Triassic transition in South and Southwest China2
- Contribution to the radiolarian fauna of the Middle Triassic of the southern Alps2
- Revised Middle and Late Triassic radiolarian ages for ophiolite mélanges: implications for the geodynamic evolution of the northern part of the early Mesozoic Neotethyan subbasins1
- Late Anisian-Early Ladinian radiolarians and conodonts from Smarna Gora near Ljubljana, Slovenia1
Each of the 15 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 Spongopallium contortum 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 Spongopallium contortum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spongopallium contortum 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 itSpongopallium through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dumitrica et al. 1980