Camerospongia

Camerospongia

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 109 million years on record.

The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 159 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 23 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 23 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 12 of 23 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 23 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 23 occurrencesEocene161–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–153 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences153–149 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences141–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–133 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences133–129 Mya — about 2 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 1 occurrence125–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157.9 Mya48.07 Mya161 Mya39 Mya

23 occurrences of Camerospongia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

23 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

4 formations

White Limestone — 55.22°N, 6.40°WChiampo — 45.53°N, 11.25°ECouches de Birmensdorf — 46.25°N, 5.67°E"Scaphiten-Pläner" — 50.67°N, 17.95°E

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The named rock units Camerospongia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Camerospongia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Camerospongia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

424 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Camerospongia, 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

10 references

Each of the 23 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 content1

Picture of Camerospongia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Camerospongia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCamerospongiidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1849