Astraeospongium

Astraeospongium is a genus of calcareous sponge from the Silurian. Known species include A. meniscum and A. patina.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AstraeospongiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Porifera
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Heteractinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Heteractinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Heteractinida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Heteractinida

Time the record covers

At least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 440.5 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 34 occurrencesSilurian — about 25 of 34 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 9 of 34 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 1 occurrence438–436 Mya — about 2 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 2 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 4 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 5 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 3 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 2 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 2 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 1 occurrence387–385 Mya — about 4 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 2 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences440.5 Mya387.95 Mya444 Mya381 Mya

34 occurrences of Astraeospongium on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

34 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

17 formations

Racine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WMoscow — 42.90°N, 78.04°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 77.90°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.83°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.33°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WRochester Shale — 43.20°N, 77.53°WOsgood — 39.07°N, 85.25°WWayne — 35.38°N, 88.00°WWayne — 38.08°N, 87.02°WManitoba Limestone — 51.65°N, 99.82°WCelechovice Limestone — 49.57°N, 17.25°EWabash — 40.42°N, 85.80°WBrassfield — 39.34°N, 85.48°WLaurel Limestone — 39.43°N, 85.63°WScotch Grove — 41.85°N, 90.18°WOsgood Shale — 39.13°N, 85.30°WSalamonie Dolomite — 39.38°N, 85.57°WBainbridge Limestone — 38.22°N, 90.67°WHenryhouse — 34.37°N, 97.00°WLittle Cedar — 42.00°N, 91.00°WAhbach — 50.33°N, 6.77°E

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The named rock units Astraeospongium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Astraeospongium and its relatives

Silurian

Where Astraeospongium and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

665 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Astraeospongium, 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

11 references

Each of the 34 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 content2

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Astraeospongium sp. · MST:PALEO:MST-SP-6940

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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 itAstraeospongiidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roemer 1860