Axinella

Axinella is a genus of sponges in the family Axinellidae first described in 1862 by Eduard Oscar Schmidt. Species of the genus Axinella occur in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Most of these sponges are smaller than 20 cm, and have a yellow or orange colour.

Axinella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AxinellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Axinellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Axinellida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Axinellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At most 8.2 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 113.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Axinella on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

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

1 formation

  • Hythe Formation · Lower Greensand GroupEngland · UK · 121.4–113.2 Mya1
Hythe — 51.25°N, 0.07°W

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

Axinella and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Axinella and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

5 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Axinella, 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 reference

Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Axinella

Credit
This photo has been taken by Matthieu Sontag (User:Mirgolth) and released under the licenses stated below. You are fr…
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Axinella 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.

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 itAxinellidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schmidt 1862