Thoosidae

Thoosidae is a family of sponges belonging to the order Tetractinellida.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AstrophoridaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Astrophorida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Astrophorida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Astrophorida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 112 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 2 occurrences139–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences132.6 Mya20.45 Mya139 Mya14 Mya

2 occurrences of Thoosidae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

2 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

2 formations

Lakšárska Nová Ves — 48.59°N, 17.40°ESiniscola Marl — 40.59°N, 9.69°E

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

Thoosidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Thoosidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

17 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Thoosidae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 Thoosidae 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 Thoosidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Thoosidae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itAstrophorida through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cockerell 1925