Belemnospongia

No picture of Belemnospongia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Belemnospongia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TetractinomorphaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tetractinomorpha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tetractinomorpha
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tetractinomorpha
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 124 million years on record.

The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 306 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 303.7 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 13 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 13 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 12 of 13 occurrencesCarboniferous435–431 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences431–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences355–350 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences346–341 Mya — about 3 occurrences341–337 Mya — about 3 occurrences337–332 Mya — about 1 occurrence332–328 Mya — about 1 occurrence328–324 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences324–319 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–310 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences310–306 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences306–301 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences430.6 Mya306 Mya435 Mya301 Mya

13 occurrences of Belemnospongia on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

13 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

7 formations

Salem Limestone — 37.26°N, 85.34°WSalem Limestone — 37.19°N, 85.37°WSalem Limestone — 37.05°N, 85.05°WSalem Limestone — 38.06°N, 85.98°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WBangor Limestone — 34.54°N, 88.00°WRamp Creek — 39.33°N, 86.67°WButterfield — 40.50°N, 112.13°WBond — 40.78°N, 88.68°WDelorme — 62.40°N, 127.07°W

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The named rock units Belemnospongia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Belemnospongia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Belemnospongia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

165 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Belemnospongia, 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

8 references

Each of the 13 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 content0

No picture of Belemnospongia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Belemnospongia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Belemnospongia 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 itTetractinomorpha through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1889