Astreospongia sp.
No picture of Astreospongia sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Astreospongia sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 700 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 440.1 Mya and 439.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Astreospongia sp. 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
1 occurrences- Silurian100%
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.
Astreospongia sp. and its relatives
SilurianWhere Astreospongia sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Asthenophyllum1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Auloporella1 site
- Catenipora1 site
- Clorinda1 site
- Cystihalysites1 site
- Favosites1 site
- Glassia1 site
- Halysites magnitubus1 site
- Hesperorthis1 site
- Isorthis1 site
- Leptelloidea1 site
- Palaeocyclus1 site
- Pentamerus1 site
- Ptychophyllum1 site
- Romingeria1 site
- Thamnopora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Astreospongia sp., 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content0
No picture of Astreospongia sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Astreospongia sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Astreospongia sp. 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.