Talpaspongia clavata

Talpaspongia clavata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TalpaspongiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Porifera
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Heteractinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Heteractinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Heteractinida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Heteractinida

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.6 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 326.9 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPermian328–326 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 2 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323.6 Mya283.3 Mya328 Mya273 Mya

5 occurrences of Talpaspongia clavata on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

5 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

4 formations

Manning Canyon Shale — 40.42°N, 112.17°WManning Canyon Shale — 40.32°N, 112.27°WGreat Blue — 40.30°N, 112.22°WManning Canyon — 40.53°N, 112.30°WQixia — 23.71°N, 109.23°E

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The named rock units Talpaspongia clavata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Talpaspongia clavata and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Talpaspongia clavata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

43 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Talpaspongia clavata, 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

Each of the 5 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

Media content1

Picture of Talpaspongia clavata

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Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Talpaspongia clavata 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 itTalpaspongia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. King 1943