Dystactospongia

Dystactospongia

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
DystactospongiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Ceractinomorpha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ceractinomorpha
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ceractinomorpha
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 4.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 34 of 34 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 34 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 2 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 4 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453.8 Mya449.6 Mya458.7 Mya442.6 Mya

34 occurrences of Dystactospongia on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

34 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

12 formations

Wardell — 37.08°N, 81.55°WWardell — 37.10°N, 81.34°WWardell — 37.00°N, 81.00°WWardell — 37.02°N, 81.73°WWardell — 37.03°N, 81.79°WWardell — 37.06°N, 81.75°WCliffield — 37.06°N, 81.76°WCliffield — 37.17°N, 81.48°WCliffield — 37.10°N, 81.56°WCliffield — 37.00°N, 81.00°WCliffield — 37.02°N, 81.63°WCliffield — 37.10°N, 81.66°WBenbolt — 37.10°N, 81.34°WBenbolt — 37.22°N, 81.36°WBenbolt — 37.23°N, 81.10°WBenbolt — 37.00°N, 81.00°WBenbolt — 37.23°N, 81.32°WBenbolt — 37.08°N, 81.71°WWitten Limestone — 37.20°N, 81.36°WWitten Limestone — 37.11°N, 81.52°WWitten Limestone — 37.02°N, 81.63°WWhitewater — 39.42°N, 85.01°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WCarters Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WHermitage — 35.50°N, 86.50°WLeipers — 35.50°N, 86.50°WArnheim — 35.50°N, 86.50°WSaluda — 39.07°N, 85.25°W

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The named rock units Dystactospongia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dystactospongia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Dystactospongia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

361 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Dystactospongia, 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 34 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 Dystactospongia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dystactospongia 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 itDystactospongiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1882