Cypellospongia

No picture of Cypellospongia 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 Cypellospongia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TaegerinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lyssacinosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lyssacinosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lyssacinosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At most 1.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 248.6 Mya and 247 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Triassic — about 7 of 7 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 7 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249.1 Mya246.5 Mya

7 occurrences of Cypellospongia on record, most of them in the Early 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

7 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

2 formations

Thaynes — 40.03°N, 111.51°WThaynes — 40.65°N, 111.61°WThaynes — 40.77°N, 111.83°WThaynes — 39.56°N, 115.22°WThaynes — 39.34°N, 113.70°WVirgin — 37.05°N, 113.68°W

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The named rock units Cypellospongia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cypellospongia and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Cypellospongia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

17 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Cypellospongia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

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. 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 Cypellospongia 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 Cypellospongia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cypellospongia 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 itTaegerinae through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rigby and Gosney 1983