Spongoplegma
No picture of Spongoplegma 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 Spongoplegma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ActinommidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Radiolaria
Time the record covers
At least 5.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.
8 occurrences of Spongoplegma on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
8 occurrences- Miocene25%
- Pliocene50%
- Pleistocene13%
- Holocene13%
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.
Spongoplegma and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Spongoplegma and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Cycladophora8 sites
- Spongotrochus8 sites
- Antarctissa7 sites
- Desmospyris6 sites
- Helotholus5 sites
- Eucyrtidium4 sites
- Prunopyle4 sites
- Saccospyris4 sites
- Botryopera3 sites
- Hexacontium3 sites
- Lychnocanium3 sites
- Spongopyle3 sites
- Stylodictya3 sites
- Acanthodesmia2 sites
- Cornutella2 sites
- Gondwanaria2 sites
- Lampromitra2 sites
- Larcopyle2 sites
- Lithelius2 sites
- Peripyramis2 sites
- Pseudodictyophimus2 sites
- Radiolaria2 sites
- Sphaeropyle2 sites
- Actinomma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Spongoplegma, 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 referencesEach of the 8 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Spongoplegma 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 Spongoplegma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spongoplegma 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itActinommidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haeckel 1882