Stellispongiella insculpta
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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.
33 occurrences of Stellispongiella insculpta 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
33 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
4 formations
- Saikra Biohermal Complex Formation10
- Middle Shaly Facies Formation6
- Djebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex Formation5
- Djebel Tebaga Formation2
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The named rock units Stellispongiella insculpta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Stellispongiella insculpta and its relatives
PermianWhere Stellispongiella insculpta and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
161 taxa- Stellispongiella bacilla26 sites
- Intratubospongia osiensis24 sites
- Auriculospongia auriculata17 sites
- Prestellispongia paula14 sites
- Prestellispongia lobata13 sites
- Prestellispongia permica13 sites
- Pseudohimatella pauciporata13 sites
- Stellispongiella reticulata10 sites
- Colospongia cortexifera9 sites
- Exotubispongia virgulata9 sites
- Laccosiphonella merlai9 sites
- Radiotrabeculopora xiangboensis9 sites
- Spica spica9 sites
- Radiotrabeculopora reticulata8 sites
- Imperatoria voluta7 sites
- Permocorynella ovoidalis7 sites
- Sollasia ostiolata7 sites
- Auriculospongia perforata6 sites
- Imbricatocoelia ramosa6 sites
- Preeudea minima6 sites
- Pseudoguadalupia alveolaris6 sites
- Stellispongiella porosa6 sites
- Discosiphonella mammilosus5 sites
- Estrellospongia grossa5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Stellispongiella insculpta, 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
1 referenceEach of the 33 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 Stellispongiella insculpta 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 insculpta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Stellispongiella insculpta 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. Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996