Spongopyle insolita
No picture of Spongopyle insolita 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 Spongopyle insolita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpongopylePBDB
Time the record covers
At least 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 61.66 Mya.
6 occurrences of Spongopyle insolita on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous67%
- Paleocene33%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Spongopyle insolita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spongopyle insolita and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Spongopyle insolita and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
124 taxa- Amphipyndax stocki5 sites
- Dictyomitra multicostata5 sites
- Archaeospongoprunum bipartitum4 sites
- Praeconocaryomma universa4 sites
- Theocapsomma amphora4 sites
- Artostrobus3 sites
- Bathropyramis3 sites
- Cromyodruppa concentrica3 sites
- Dictyomitra3 sites
- Dictyomitra densicostata3 sites
- Euchitonia santonica3 sites
- Eucyrtidiidae3 sites
- Eucyrtidium3 sites
- Histiastrum aster3 sites
- Lithelius3 sites
- Spongodiscidae3 sites
- Stichomitra carnegiense3 sites
- Acaeniotyle2 sites
- Acanthocircus2 sites
- Actinomminae2 sites
- Alievium gallowayi2 sites
- Amphipyndax mediocris2 sites
- Amphisphaera2 sites
- Archaeodictyomitra2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Spongopyle insolita, 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- Upper Cretaceous (Santonian-Campanian) radiolarians from Voronesh Anticline, southwestern Russia3
- Stratigraphic, paleontological and geochemical data from Upper Cretaceous and Lower Paleocene strata in southeastern Marlborough, New Zealand2
- Upper Cretaceous Radiolaria from the Russian Platform (Moscow Basin)1
Each of the 6 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 Spongopyle insolita 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 Spongopyle insolita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spongopyle insolita 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 itSpongopyle through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kozlova 1966