Astylospongiidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrchocladinaPBDB
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 332 million years on record.

The record covers at least 469.4 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Ordovician — about 9 of 61 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 28 of 61 occurrencesDevonian — about 16 of 61 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 61 occurrencesPermian — about 6 of 61 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 61 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 61 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 61 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 61 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 61 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 61 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 61 occurrences478–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence455–443 Mya — about 8 occurrences443–431 Mya — about 11 occurrences431–419 Mya — about 17 occurrences419–408 Mya — about 3 occurrences396–384 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences384–372 Mya — about 11 occurrences372–361 Mya — about 2 occurrences361–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences302–290 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences290–278 Mya — about 4 occurrences278–267 Mya — about 1 occurrence149–138 Mya — about 1 occurrence138–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence469.4 Mya137.05 Mya478 Mya126 Mya

61 occurrences of Astylospongiidae 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

61 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

20 formations

Delorme — 62.40°N, 127.07°WCape Phillips — 75.14°N, 93.90°WCape Phillips — 75.75°N, 94.40°WCape Phillips — 75.27°N, 95.97°WGreat Bear Cape — 78.40°N, 85.60°WMaquoketa — 43.55°N, 92.00°WMaquoketa — 43.50°N, 92.13°WMaquoketa — 43.68°N, 92.38°WMalongulli — 33.58°S, 148.89°EGarra — 32.58°S, 148.95°EWaldron Shale — 39.00°N, 86.00°WWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WManticoceras Limestone — 50.80°N, 20.57°EAbenaki — 43.69°N, 60.83°WWabash — 40.88°N, 85.50°WLaurel Limestone — 39.43°N, 85.63°WLaurel — 39.50°N, 85.47°WWayne — 35.38°N, 88.00°WSurmaq — 31.04°N, 52.91°EWhite Head — 49.00°N, 64.00°WSadler — 18.62°S, 125.94°EPorsguen — 48.33°N, 4.33°WNeuville — 50.17°N, 4.50°EMoulin Lienaux — 50.07°N, 4.50°ESan Juan — 30.41°S, 68.69°W

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The named rock units Astylospongiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Astylospongiidae and its relatives

Silurian

Where Astylospongiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

377 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Astylospongiidae, 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

20 references

Each of the 61 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. 8 further references are not listed. 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

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

No 3D scan of Astylospongiidae 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 itOrchocladina through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zittel 1877