Craticularia parallela
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CraticulariaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 143.1 Mya.
21 occurrences of Craticularia parallela on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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
21 occurrencesThese 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
- La Manga Formation · Lotena Group2
- Peral Formation1
- Calcaires Lites Formation1
- Couches de Birmensdorf Formation1
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The named rock units Craticularia parallela 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.
Craticularia parallela and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Craticularia parallela and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
211 taxa- Cypellia rugosa12 sites
- Cribrospongia11 sites
- Cribrospongia reticulata11 sites
- Cylindrophyma milleporata9 sites
- Cnemopeltia (Cnemopeltia) rimulosum8 sites
- Dictyonocoelia schweiggeri8 sites
- Porospongia marginata8 sites
- Hyalotragos pezizoides7 sites
- Pachyteichisma7 sites
- Pachyteichisma lopas7 sites
- Sphenaulax costata7 sites
- Sporadopyle obliqua7 sites
- Chonellopsis striata6 sites
- Laocoetis6 sites
- Laocoetis procumbens6 sites
- Lecanella6 sites
- Lecanella pateraeformis6 sites
- Linonema calyx6 sites
- Ordinatus texturatus6 sites
- Ramispongia ramosa6 sites
- Stauroderma lochense6 sites
- Trochobolus cylindratus6 sites
- Cnemidiastrum stellatum5 sites
- Cypellia5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Craticularia parallela, 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- Upper Jurassic siliceous sponges from the Swabian Alb: taxonomy and paleoecology9
- Oxfordian sponge association from the Neuquen basin, Mendoza, west central Argentina2
- Siliceous sponge facies from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal2
- Les biohermes a spongiaires et leur environnement dans l'Oxfordien du Jura Meridional [Sponge bioherms and their environment in the Oxfordian of the Southern Jura]2
- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)2
- The La Voulte Lagerstätte (Callovian): Evidence for a deep water setting from sponge and crinoid communities1
- Endemic features of the Upper Jurassic sponges in the western central Dobrogea (Atarnati-Cechirgea perimeter)1
- Comparative palaeoecology of marly coralline sponge-bearing reefal associations from the Kimmeridgina (Upper Jurassic) of Portugal and southwestern Germany1
- Die oberjurassische Korallenfauna von Württemberg1
Each of the 21 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 Craticularia parallela
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Craticularia parallela 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 itCraticularia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1826)