Colospongia mennulensis
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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 most 26 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Colospongia mennulensis on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
3 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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 Colospongia mennulensis 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.
Colospongia mennulensis and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Colospongia mennulensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
130 taxa- Microtubus2 sites
- Thamnasteria2 sites
- Uvanella irregularis2 sites
- Uvanella norica2 sites
- Actinotubella gusici1 site
- Aeolisaccus1 site
- Agglutisolena1 site
- Alpinophragmium1 site
- Alpinothalamia minima1 site
- Amblysiphonella1 site
- Ammobaculites1 site
- Ammonoidea1 site
- Annaecoelia mirabilis1 site
- Astraeomorpha1 site
- Astraeomorpha confusa1 site
- Astraeomorpha sonorensis1 site
- Atrochaetetes conicus1 site
- Aulosina oberhauseri1 site
- Aulotortus1 site
- Austrocolomia1 site
- Baccanella floriformis1 site
- Bacinella1 site
- Bacinella irregularis1 site
- Battaglia major1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Colospongia mennulensis, 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
3 references- Hypercalcified sponges from the Upper Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) reefs of Sicily1
- Upper Triassic sponges (Sphinctozoa) from southern Yukon, Stikinia terrane1
- Sphinctozoen (Kalkschwämme) aus den norischen Riffen von Sizilien1
Each of the 3 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 Colospongia mennulensis 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 mennulensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Colospongia mennulensis 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 itColospongia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Senowbari-Daryan and Schaefer 1986