Stellispongia

Stellispongia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StellispongiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Calcaronea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Calcaronea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Calcaronea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Calcarea

Time the record covers

At least 129 million years on record.

The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Permian — about 22 of 56 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 56 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 56 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 23 of 56 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 56 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 56 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 4 of 56 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 56 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous277–272 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences272–267 Mya — about 1 occurrence267–262 Mya — about 13 occurrences262–258 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences258–253 Mya — about 5 occurrences253–248 Mya — about 2 occurrences243–238 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences238–233 Mya — about 15 occurrences233–228 Mya — about 3 occurrences228–223 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences223–218 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences218–213 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences213–208 Mya — about 1 occurrence208–204 Mya — about 1 occurrence204–199 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences199–194 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences194–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–169 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences169–164 Mya — about 3 occurrences164–159 Mya — about 1 occurrence159–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–149 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences149–145 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences145–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–135 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences266.9 Mya137.05 Mya277 Mya130 Mya

56 occurrences of Stellispongia on record, most of them in the Late 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

56 occurrences

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

13 formations

Cassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.96°ECassian — 46.53°N, 12.07°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ECassian — 46.58°N, 12.25°ECassian — 46.51°N, 11.76°EMaokou — 24.90°N, 105.15°EMaokou — 24.92°N, 105.12°EChangxing — 30.38°N, 106.85°EChangxing — 24.91°N, 105.13°EChangxing — 30.05°N, 108.93°EChangxing — 25.83°N, 106.08°EZiyundong — 25.83°N, 106.04°ESan Cassiano — 46.65°N, 12.21°EBortepa — 37.50°N, 74.50°ENeoschwagerina Beds — 46.37°N, 14.11°EMobo — 25.83°N, 106.08°EBroccatello — 45.87°N, 8.93°ESciliar Dolomite — 46.42°N, 12.13°ECornwallis — 56.43°N, 133.87°WGreat Oolite — 51.39°N, 2.32°WCoralline Oolite — 54.28°N, 0.40°W

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The named rock units Stellispongia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stellispongia and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Stellispongia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

916 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Stellispongia, 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

23 references

Each of the 56 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. 11 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Stellispongia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Stellispongia 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.

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What may have been alongside itStellispongiinae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1849