Colospongia

Searched as Colospongia sp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Colospongia as the accepted name.

Colospongia

Termier, H. · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ColospongiinaePBDB
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 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 248 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 111 of 248 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 248 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 28 of 248 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 107 of 248 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 248 occurrences309–305 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences305–302 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences302–298 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences291–287 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences287–283 Mya — about 1 occurrence283–280 Mya — about 1 occurrence280–276 Mya — about 1 occurrence276–273 Mya — about 4 occurrences273–269 Mya — about 6 occurrences269–265 Mya — about 20 occurrences265–262 Mya — about 23 occurrences262–258 Mya — about 13 occurrences258–254 Mya — about 8 occurrences254–251 Mya — about 32 occurrences251–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247–243 Mya — about 3 occurrences243–240 Mya — about 15 occurrences240–236 Mya — about 19 occurrences236–232 Mya — about 22 occurrences232–229 Mya — about 16 occurrences229–225 Mya — about 9 occurrences225–221 Mya — about 6 occurrences221–218 Mya — about 5 occurrences218–214 Mya — about 5 occurrences214–210 Mya — about 7 occurrences210–207 Mya — about 17 occurrences207–203 Mya — about 9 occurrences203–199 Mya — about 2 occurrences298.9 Mya205.7 Mya309 Mya199 Mya

248 occurrences of Colospongia 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

248 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

62 formations

Lyudyanza — 42.90°N, 133.00°ELyudyanza — 42.85°N, 133.04°ELyudyanza — 42.79°N, 132.86°EChangxing — 29.42°N, 110.90°EChangxing — 29.92°N, 106.43°EChangxing — 29.88°N, 106.50°EChangxing — 30.38°N, 106.85°EChangxing — 30.05°N, 108.93°EChangxing — 30.92°N, 119.99°EChangxing — 30.08°N, 108.86°EChangxing — 25.83°N, 106.08°EChangxing — 28.01°N, 110.18°EChangxing — 31.76°N, 108.46°ELechkogel — 47.42°N, 13.07°ELechkogel — 47.55°N, 14.52°ELechkogel — 47.70°N, 15.53°ELechkogel — 46.77°N, 14.45°ELechkogel — 46.67°N, 14.85°ELechkogel — 48.00°N, 16.23°EWetterstein — 48.51°N, 20.55°EMiddle Shaly Facies — 33.38°N, 10.22°ECassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.52°N, 12.10°ECassian — 46.58°N, 12.25°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.50°N, 17.33°EWetterstein Limestone — 49.00°N, 18.48°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.58°N, 20.42°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.58°N, 20.58°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.62°N, 20.53°EMaokou — 24.92°N, 105.12°EMaokou — 24.90°N, 105.15°EMaokou — 24.02°N, 105.09°EDachstein — 47.45°N, 13.07°EDachstein — 47.58°N, 14.47°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°EDachstein — 47.63°N, 13.17°EPantokrator limestone — 37.33°N, 23.47°EDjebel Tebaga — 33.37°N, 10.18°ESaikra Biohermal Complex — 33.45°N, 10.30°ESaikra Biohermal Complex — 33.41°N, 10.23°ENayband — 33.53°N, 51.47°ENayband — 33.60°N, 51.00°ENayband — 33.12°N, 51.98°ENayband — 32.52°N, 57.37°ENayband — 34.13°N, 58.20°EMisfah — 22.78°N, 57.83°EMisfah — 22.92°N, 57.67°EKasimlar — 37.70°N, 31.35°EAl Jil — 23.13°N, 58.33°EWetterstein — 48.58°N, 20.58°ENeoschwagerina Beds — 46.37°N, 14.11°ENeoschwagerina Beds — 46.35°N, 14.07°EPalmarito — 8.03°N, 71.35°WPalmarito — 8.02°N, 71.38°WDjebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex — 33.41°N, 10.18°EWetterstein — 47.42°N, 11.00°EWetterstein — 47.70°N, 12.02°EZiyundong — 25.83°N, 106.04°ELengwu — 29.80°N, 119.65°ETisovec Limestone — 47.63°N, 14.33°E

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The named rock units Colospongia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 56 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Colospongia and its relatives

Permian

Where Colospongia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,897 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 190 sites for Colospongia, 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

93 references

Each of the 248 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. 81 further references are not listed. 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 Colospongia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Termier, H.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Colospongia 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Laube 1865