Colospongia benjamini
No picture of Colospongia benjamini 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 Colospongia benjamini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ColospongiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Verticillitida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Verticillitida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Verticillitida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
Time the record covers
At least 49 million years on record.
The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
11 occurrences of Colospongia benjamini 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
11 occurrences- Carboniferous18%
- Permian82%
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
5 formations
- Lyudyanza Formation7
- Lengwu Formation1
- Lercara Formation1
- Auernig Formation1
- Wolf Mountain Formation · Canyon Group1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Colospongia benjamini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Colospongia benjamini and its relatives
PermianWhere Colospongia benjamini and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
77 taxa- Amblysiphonella obliquisepta4 sites
- Amblysiphonella vesiculosa4 sites
- Amblysiphonella yini4 sites
- Colospongia composita4 sites
- Rhabdactinia columnaria4 sites
- Amblysiphonella eleganta3 sites
- Colospongia nachodkiensis3 sites
- Cystauletes primoriensis3 sites
- Cystothalamia crassa3 sites
- Amblysiphonella2 sites
- Celyphia permica2 sites
- Cystothalamia surmaqensis2 sites
- Follicatena callosa2 sites
- Girtyocoelia orientalis2 sites
- Intrasporeocoelia orientalis2 sites
- Intrasporeocoelia robusta2 sites
- Sollasia arta2 sites
- Thaumastocoelia2 sites
- Amblysiphonella regularis1 site
- Amblysiphonella specialis1 site
- Archaeocidaris1 site
- Archaeolithoporella1 site
- Asserculinia1 site
- Bellerophon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Colospongia benjamini, 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
5 references- Boiko et al., 19917
- New taxa of Sphictozoa from the Permian reefs of southeastern China1
- Microfacies and sphinctozoan assemblage of some Lower Permian breccias from the Lercara Formation (Sicily)1
- Sphinctozoen aus den Auernigschichten des Nassfeldes (Oberkarbon, Karnische Alpen, Österreich) [Sphinctozoan from the Auernig beds of Nassfeld (Upper Carboniferous, Carnic Alps, Austria)]1
- Biostratigraphy of the Graford Formation, Missourian, Wise County, Texas1
Each of the 11 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 Colospongia benjamini 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 Colospongia benjamini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Colospongia benjamini 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itColospongia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Girty 1909)