Sporadoscinia quenstedti
No picture of Sporadoscinia quenstedti 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 Sporadoscinia quenstedti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SporadosciniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
6 occurrences of Sporadoscinia quenstedti 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 Cretaceous100%
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 Sporadoscinia quenstedti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sporadoscinia quenstedti and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Sporadoscinia quenstedti and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
259 taxa- Callopegma acaule4 sites
- Coeloptychium agaricoides4 sites
- Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri4 sites
- Jereica polystoma4 sites
- Leptophragma murchisoni4 sites
- Phymatella bulbosa4 sites
- Plinthosella squamosa4 sites
- Ragadinia rimosa4 sites
- Amphithelion (Amphithelion) macrommata3 sites
- Aphrocallistes alveolites3 sites
- Astrocladia subramosa3 sites
- Aulaxinia sulcifera3 sites
- Chonella tenuis3 sites
- Coeloptychium deciminum3 sites
- Coeloptychium incisum3 sites
- Coeloptychium sulciferum3 sites
- Coeloscyphia racemosa3 sites
- Colossolacis plicata3 sites
- Coscinopora infundibuliformis3 sites
- Coscinostoma fragilis3 sites
- Homalodoriana ficus3 sites
- Homalodoriana plana3 sites
- Jereica oligostoma3 sites
- Leiochonia cryptoporosa3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Sporadoscinia quenstedti, 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
4 references- Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 2 Triaxonia (Hexactinellida) [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 2 Triaxonia (Hexactinellida)]3
- Die Spongien der Ilsenburg-Entwicklung (Oberes Unter-Campan) der Subherzynen Kreidemulde [Sponges of the Ilsenburg Formation (Upper Lower Campanian) of the Subhercynian Cretaceous Basin1
- Etude paleontologique de la Thierache et du Marlois (NE du Bassin de Paris): Spongiaires du Turonien superieur et du Senonien inferieur1
- Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Crétacé supérieur du nord de la France1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Sporadoscinia quenstedti 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 Sporadoscinia quenstedti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sporadoscinia quenstedti 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 itSporadoscinia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schrammen 1912