Brachiospongia digitata

Brachiospongia digitata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BrachiospongiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lyssacinosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lyssacinosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lyssacinosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 800 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 451 Mya to 450.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 453.8 Mya to 449.6 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 2 occurrencesOrdovician454–454 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences451 Mya450.2 Mya454.3 Mya449.1 Mya

2 occurrences of Brachiospongia digitata on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

2 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

2 formations

Lexington — 38.17°N, 84.83°WRed River — 52.13°N, 97.52°W

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

Brachiospongia digitata and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Brachiospongia digitata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Brachiospongia digitata, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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

Media content2

Picture of Brachiospongia digitata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itBrachiospongia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Owen 1858)