Crispispongia expansa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OculospongiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Calcarea
Time the record covers
At most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 152.21 Mya and 145.06 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Crispispongia expansa 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
7 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Crispispongia expansa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Crispispongia expansa and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Crispispongia expansa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
187 taxa- Enaulofungia glomerata6 sites
- Adelocoenia limbata4 sites
- Corynella costata4 sites
- Cryptocoenia claudiensis4 sites
- Cyathophora bourgueti4 sites
- Enallhelia compressa4 sites
- Microphyllia soemmeringii4 sites
- Solenocoenia sexradiata4 sites
- Thecosmilia trichotoma4 sites
- Actinaraea3 sites
- Axosmilia infundibuliformis3 sites
- Calamophylliopsis cervina3 sites
- Corynella quenstedti3 sites
- Dimorphastrea concentrica3 sites
- Elasmostoma fomes3 sites
- Enallohelia striata3 sites
- Enaulofungia pedunculata3 sites
- Epitheles3 sites
- Gyrodendron proliferum3 sites
- Latiphyllia suevica3 sites
- Latomeandra dubia3 sites
- Latomeandra plicata3 sites
- Oculospongia3 sites
- Pareudea3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Crispispongia expansa, 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- Die Kalkschwämme der Unterordnung Inozoa Steinmann aus dem Oberen Jura von Württemberg (SW-Deutschland) [The Calcispongia of the suborder Inozoa Steinmann from the Upper Jurassic of Württemberg (SW Germany)]5
- Die Korallenvorkommen von Gerstetten; fazielle und stratigraphische Zuordnung im Oberen Weißen Jura der östlichen Schwäbischen Alb1
- Die oberjurassische Korallenfauna von Württemberg1
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Crispispongia expansa 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 Crispispongia expansa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Crispispongia expansa 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOculospongia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Quenstedt 1878