Ascospongiella

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PelicaspongiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Amphidiscosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Amphidiscosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Amphidiscosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 134 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 315.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 3 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous472–467 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences467–462 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences462–456 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences328–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–317 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences317–312 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458.2 Mya323.4 Mya472 Mya312 Mya

3 occurrences of Ascospongiella on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

3 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

Gilwern Volcanic — 52.24°N, 3.38°WSan Emiliano — 42.95°N, 5.97°W

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

Ascospongiella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Ascospongiella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

45 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ascospongiella, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Ascospongiella 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 itPelicaspongiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Garcia-Bellido and Rigby 2004