Tremaphorus tenuis
No picture of Tremaphorus tenuis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Tremaphorus tenuis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TremaphorusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hexactinosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hexactinosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hexactinosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At most 4.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 159 Mya and 154.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Tremaphorus tenuis on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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
4 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Tremaphorus tenuis 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.
Tremaphorus tenuis and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Tremaphorus tenuis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
99 taxa- Craticularia parallela4 sites
- Cribrospongia4 sites
- Cribrospongia reticulata4 sites
- Cypellia4 sites
- Cypellia rugosa4 sites
- Discophyma4 sites
- Porospongia marginata4 sites
- Sporadopyle obliqua4 sites
- Cnemopeltia (Cnemopeltia) rimulosum3 sites
- Dictyonocoelia schweiggeri3 sites
- Pachyteichisma gresslyi3 sites
- Pachyteichisma lopas3 sites
- Trochobolus cylindratus3 sites
- Verrucocoelia3 sites
- Verrucocoelia verrucosa3 sites
- Buratina2 sites
- Casearia articulata2 sites
- Ceriocava corymbosa2 sites
- Chonellopsis striata2 sites
- Cnemidiastrum2 sites
- Cnemidiastrum stellatum2 sites
- Crania2 sites
- Craticularia2 sites
- Cribrospongia elegans2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tremaphorus tenuis, 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- Upper Jurassic siliceous sponges from the Swabian Alb: taxonomy and paleoecology2
- Les biohermes a spongiaires et leur environnement dans l'Oxfordien du Jura Meridional [Sponge bioherms and their environment in the Oxfordian of the Southern Jura]1
- Les formations a spongiaires des Calcaires Lites (Oxfordien Superieur du Jura meridional) [The sponge formations of the Calcaires Lites (Upper Oxfordian of the southern Jura)]1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Tremaphorus tenuis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Tremaphorus tenuis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tremaphorus tenuis 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 itTremaphorus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Oppliger 1915)