Stellispongia variabilis

Stellispongia variabilis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StellispongiaPBDB
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 6.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 7 occurrencesLate Triassic238–237 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 2 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 2 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 1 occurrence228–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences233.6 Mya227.3 Mya237.6 Mya205.1 Mya

7 occurrences of Stellispongia variabilis 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

7 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

1 formation

Cassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.52°N, 11.96°ECassian — 46.52°N, 12.08°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°E

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The named rock units Stellispongia variabilis 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.

Stellispongia variabilis and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

466 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Stellispongia variabilis, 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

Each of the 7 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 content1

Picture of Stellispongia variabilis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Stellispongia variabilis 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 itStellispongia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Münster 1841)