Turonia

Turonia is an extinct genus of sea sponges belonging to the class Demospongiae.

Turonia

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 20 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 19 of 20 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 20 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–69 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences113.2 Mya72.2 Mya123 Mya65 Mya

20 occurrences of Turonia on record, most of them in the Late 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

20 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

3 formations

Neuburger Weiß — 48.73°N, 11.18°EIlsenburg — 51.83°N, 10.78°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°E

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The named rock units Turonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turonia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Turonia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

495 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Turonia, 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

8 references

Each of the 20 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 content1

Picture of Turonia

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Turonia 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.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itSiphoniinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Michelin 1847