Belyaevaspongia insolita
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BelyaevaspongiaPBDB
- 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 2.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 254.14 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Belyaevaspongia insolita 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Belyaevaspongia insolita 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.
Belyaevaspongia insolita and its relatives
PermianWhere Belyaevaspongia insolita and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Polycystocoelia huajiaopingensis2 sites
- Ambithalamia permica1 site
- Amblysiphonella asiatica1 site
- Amblysiphonella eleganta1 site
- Amblysiphonella vesiculosa1 site
- Bicoelia spinosa1 site
- Bicoelia tubulara1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Colaniella parva1 site
- Colospongia1 site
- Colospongia nachodkiensis1 site
- Cystauletes squamilis1 site
- Cystothalamia1 site
- Discosiphonella1 site
- Echinodermata1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Geinitzina1 site
- Geinitzina postcarbonica1 site
- Girtyocoelia beedei1 site
- Hemigordius1 site
- Hexactinellida1 site
- Imbricatocoelia lichatchevi1 site
- Inozoa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Belyaevaspongia insolita, 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
2 references- Boiko et al., 19913
- Sponge assemblage of some Upper Permian reef limestones from Phrae province (Northern Thailand)1
Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Belyaevaspongia insolita was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Belyaevaspongia insolita, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itBelyaevaspongia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Belyaeva 1991)