Chaunactis foliata
No picture of Chaunactis foliata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Chaunactis foliata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChaunactisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lithistida
Time the record covers
At least 4.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya.
6 occurrences of Chaunactis foliata 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
6 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 Chaunactis foliata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Chaunactis foliata and its relatives
PermianWhere Chaunactis foliata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Amblysiphonella guadalupensis1 site
- Chaetetes mackrothii1 site
- Girtyocoelia1 site
- Guadalupia zitteliana1 site
- Haplistion orientale1 site
- Imbricatocoelia paucipora1 site
- Lemonea cylindrica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Chaunactis foliata, 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- Sponges from the Wordian (middle Permian) of the Las Delicias Formation, Coahuila, northwestern Mexico5
- Permian sponges from brachiopod cherts at Hornsund, Spitsbergen1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Chaunactis foliata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Chaunactis foliata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Chaunactis foliata 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 itChaunactis through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Finks 1960