Diagoniella

Diagoniella is a genus of sponge known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. 128 specimens of Diagoniella are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.24% of the community.

Diagoniella

Smithsonian Institution · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
ProtospongiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 94 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 530.7 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Cambrian — about 37 of 41 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 41 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 4 of 41 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 41 occurrences533–529 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences529–525 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences525–521 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences521–518 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences518–514 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences514–510 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences510–506 Mya — about 9 occurrences506–502 Mya — about 10 occurrences502–498 Mya — about 11 occurrences498–494 Mya — about 3 occurrences494–491 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences491–487 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences487–483 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences483–479 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences479–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–441 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences441–437 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences437–433 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences433–429 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences429–425 Mya — about 1 occurrence425–421 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences421–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521 Mya426.7 Mya533 Mya417 Mya

41 occurrences of Diagoniella on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

41 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

14 formations

Marjum — 39.22°N, 113.33°WMarjum — 39.27°N, 113.28°WMarjum — 39.00°N, 113.00°WBurgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WBurgess Shale — 51.38°N, 116.43°WWheeler Shale — 39.36°N, 113.28°WWheeler Shale — 39.29°N, 113.31°WWheeler — 39.50°N, 112.99°WStephen — 51.17°N, 116.05°WMarjum Limestone — 39.22°N, 113.40°WXistos com Nodulos — 38.13°N, 6.98°WSinsk — 61.08°N, 126.58°EHetang — 29.92°N, 118.08°EOrcomato — 26.10°S, 65.03°WChester Bjerg — 81.98°N, 57.82°WWeeks — 39.22°N, 113.40°WLos Sombreros — 31.37°S, 69.27°WEl Mogallón — 28.92°N, 109.29°W

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The named rock units Diagoniella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diagoniella and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Diagoniella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

383 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Diagoniella, 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

18 references

Each of the 41 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. 6 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 Diagoniella

Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Diagoniella 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itProtospongiidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rauff 1894