Tabulospongida

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DemospongiaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 326 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 17 occurrencesDevonian — about 2 of 17 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 17 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 17 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 17 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 6 of 17 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 17 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 17 occurrences440–428 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences428–416 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences416–404 Mya — about 1 occurrence369–357 Mya — about 1 occurrence346–334 Mya — about 1 occurrence240–228 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences228–216 Mya — about 1 occurrence216–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–169 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences169–158 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–146 Mya — about 5 occurrences146–134 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences134–122 Mya — about 3 occurrences111–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–87 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences426.7 Mya100.5 Mya440 Mya87 Mya

17 occurrences of Tabulospongida on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

17 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

6 formations

Llacova — 40.47°N, 0.05°ESao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°WQuemuoco — 33.33°N, 92.00°ENehou — 49.42°N, 1.82°WRongxian — 25.33°N, 110.26°ESiphonodendron Limestone — 38.45°N, 6.38°W

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The named rock units Tabulospongida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tabulospongida and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Tabulospongida and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

406 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Tabulospongida, 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

14 references

Each of the 17 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. 2 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 content0

No picture of Tabulospongida was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tabulospongida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDemospongiae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hartmann and Goreau 1975