Diaplectia auricula
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiaplectiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Calcarea
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 154.8 Mya.
3 occurrences of Diaplectia auricula on record, most of them in the Middle 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
3 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
1 formation
- Birdlip Limestone Formation · Inferior Oolite Group1
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The named rock units Diaplectia auricula 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.
Diaplectia auricula and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Diaplectia auricula and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Cnemidiastrum stellatum1 site
- Cnemopeltia (Cnemopeltia) rimulosum1 site
- Corynella cribrata1 site
- Craticularia1 site
- Cribrospongia1 site
- Cribrospongia reticulata1 site
- Cylindrophyma milleporata1 site
- Cypellia rugosa1 site
- Diaplectia helvelloides1 site
- Dictyonocoelia schweiggeri1 site
- Discophyma1 site
- Hexactinosa1 site
- Hyalotragos patella1 site
- Inobolia inclusa1 site
- Laocoetis paradoxa1 site
- Leiodorella1 site
- Lymnorea mamillosa1 site
- Mammillopora1 site
- Ophiodesia1 site
- Paracypellia prolifera1 site
- Peronella tenuis1 site
- Peronidella cylindrica1 site
- Peronidella pistilliformis1 site
- Platychonia schlotheimi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Diaplectia auricula, 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
2 references- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)2
- Calcispongea from the Jurassic of Poland1
Each of the 3 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 Diaplectia auricula was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Diaplectia auricula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDiaplectia through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hinde 1884