Stellispongiella bacilla
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StellispongiellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Agelasida
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
53 occurrences of Stellispongiella bacilla on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
53 occurrences- Permian100%
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
7 formations
- Saikra Biohermal Complex Formation13
- Middle Shaly Facies Formation11
- Djebel Tebaga Formation6
- Djebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex Formation4
- Oum el Afia Shale Formation1
- Oum el Afia Shale (?) Formation1
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The named rock units Stellispongiella bacilla has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Stellispongiella bacilla and its relatives
PermianWhere Stellispongiella bacilla and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
215 taxa- Intratubospongia osiensis34 sites
- Stellispongiella insculpta26 sites
- Prestellispongia paula23 sites
- Pseudohimatella pauciporata21 sites
- Auriculospongia auriculata19 sites
- Prestellispongia permica18 sites
- Exotubispongia virgulata16 sites
- Prestellispongia lobata16 sites
- Radiotrabeculopora reticulata13 sites
- Colospongia cortexifera12 sites
- Radiotrabeculopora xiangboensis12 sites
- Spica spica12 sites
- Permocorynella ovoidalis11 sites
- Stellispongiella reticulata11 sites
- Imperatoria voluta10 sites
- Auriculospongia perforata9 sites
- Laccosiphonella merlai9 sites
- Sollasia ostiolata9 sites
- Polytubifungia maxima8 sites
- Discosiphonella mammilosus7 sites
- Imbricatocoelia ramosa7 sites
- Preeudea minima7 sites
- Estrellospongia grossa6 sites
- Pseudoguadalupia alveolaris6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Stellispongiella bacilla, 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 Permian inozoid, demospongid, and hexactinellid sponges from Djebel Tebaga, Tunisia49
- Monographie paleontologique des affleurements permiens du Djebel Tebaga (Sud Tunisien)3
- Wu, 19911
Each of the 53 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 Stellispongiella bacilla 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 Stellispongiella bacilla, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Stellispongiella bacilla 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 itStellispongiella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Termier and Termier 1955)