Auriculospongia perforata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AuriculospongiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Agelasida
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Auriculospongia perforata on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
14 occurrences- Permian100%
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
5 formations
- Saikra Biohermal Complex Formation5
- Middle Shaly Facies Formation3
- Oum el Afia Shale Formation1
- Djebel Tebaga Formation1
- Djebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex Formation1
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The named rock units Auriculospongia perforata 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.
Auriculospongia perforata and its relatives
PermianWhere Auriculospongia perforata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Intratubospongia osiensis10 sites
- Auriculospongia auriculata9 sites
- Stellispongiella bacilla9 sites
- Prestellispongia paula7 sites
- Pseudohimatella pauciporata7 sites
- Radiotrabeculopora xiangboensis7 sites
- Prestellispongia lobata6 sites
- Prestellispongia permica6 sites
- Stellispongiella insculpta6 sites
- Exotubispongia virgulata5 sites
- Laccosiphonella merlai5 sites
- Permocorynella ovoidalis5 sites
- Spica spica5 sites
- Stellispongiella reticulata5 sites
- Colospongia cortexifera4 sites
- Imbricatocoelia ramosa4 sites
- Imperatoria voluta4 sites
- Medenina laterala4 sites
- Polytubifungia maxima4 sites
- Subascosymplegma oussifensis4 sites
- Bryozoa3 sites
- Cystothalamia conica3 sites
- Daharella ramosa3 sites
- Discosiphonella mammilosus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Auriculospongia perforata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 14 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Auriculospongia perforata 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 Auriculospongia perforata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Auriculospongia perforata 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 itAuriculospongia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rigby and Senowbari-Daryan 1996