Tetraspongodiscus

No picture of Tetraspongodiscus 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 Tetraspongodiscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RelindellidaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Permian — about 32 of 35 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 35 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 2 of 35 occurrencesLate Triassic265–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 9 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 16 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 4 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences236–234 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259.857 Mya237 Mya265 Mya226.6 Mya

35 occurrences of Tetraspongodiscus 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

35 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

Hashikadani — 35.68°N, 136.58°EDalong — 22.27°N, 107.68°E"Gufeng" — 24.15°N, 109.42°E"Gufeng" — 24.35°N, 109.48°EGoestling — 47.80°N, 14.93°E

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The named rock units Tetraspongodiscus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tetraspongodiscus and its relatives

Permian

Where Tetraspongodiscus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

267 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Tetraspongodiscus, 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

6 references

Each of the 35 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 content0

No picture of Tetraspongodiscus 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 Tetraspongodiscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tetraspongodiscus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itRelindellidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kozur and Mostler 1979