Discodermia

Discodermia is a genus of deep-water sea sponge.

Discodermia

Carvalho FC, Cárdenas P, Ríos P, Cristobo J, Rapp HT, Xavier JR. 2020. Rock sponges (lithistid Demospongiae) of the N… · CC BY 4.0 · 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
TheonellinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lithistida

Time the record covers

At least 101 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 14 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 14 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 14 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–80 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences80–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–68 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–8.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.9–5.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences113.2 Mya11.63 Mya124 Mya5 Mya

14 occurrences of Discodermia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

14 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

Tutuiri Greensand — 43.75°S, 176.68°WNeuburger Weiß — 48.73°N, 11.18°E

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The named rock units Discodermia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Discodermia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Discodermia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

225 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Discodermia, 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

9 references

Each of the 14 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 Discodermia

Credit
Carvalho FC, Cárdenas P, Ríos P, Cristobo J, Rapp HT, Xavier JR. 2020. Rock sponges (lithistid Demospongiae) of the N…
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Discodermia 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itTheonellinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. du Bocage 1869