Dictyospongia

Dictyospongia

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 108 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 318.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 312.8 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 8 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 2 of 8 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 5 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferous435–431 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences431–427 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences427–423 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences385–381 Mya — about 2 occurrences352–348 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences348–344 Mya — about 1 occurrence344–340 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences331–327 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences327–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–315 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences315–310 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426.7 Mya318.6 Mya435 Mya310 Mya

8 occurrences of Dictyospongia on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

8 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

6 formations

Edwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.25°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WRed Hill Beds — 40.05°N, 116.04°WBangor Limestone — 34.54°N, 88.00°WAtoka — 34.83°N, 95.52°WCape Phillips — 75.60°N, 94.30°WMuldraugh — 40.06°N, 86.90°W

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

Dictyospongia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Dictyospongia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

141 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Dictyospongia, 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

6 references

Each of the 8 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 Dictyospongia

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Dictyospongia 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 itDictyospongiinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall and Clarke 1899