Enaulofungia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HolcospongiinaePBDB
- 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 56 million years on record.
The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 211.18 Mya to 143.1 Mya.
39 occurrences of Enaulofungia on record, most of them in the Late 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
39 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
9 formations
- Caillasses de la Basse Ecarde Formation4
- Alcobaça Formation2
- Fonzaso Formation2
- Massenkalk Formation2
- Coralline Oolite Formation2
- West Walton Formation1
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The named rock units Enaulofungia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Enaulofungia and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Enaulofungia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
614 taxa- Adelocoenia limbata7 sites
- Thamnasteria7 sites
- Crispispongia expansa6 sites
- Isastrea6 sites
- Pareudea bronnii6 sites
- Serpula6 sites
- Solenocoenia sexradiata6 sites
- Thecosmilia6 sites
- Thecosmilia trichotoma6 sites
- Corynella costata5 sites
- Corynella quenstedti5 sites
- Cyathophora bourgueti5 sites
- Enallhelia compressa5 sites
- Eudea perforata5 sites
- Latomeandra plicata5 sites
- Lithophaga5 sites
- Microphyllia soemmeringii5 sites
- Millericrinus5 sites
- Montlivaltia5 sites
- Oculospongia5 sites
- Peronidella5 sites
- Plagiostoma5 sites
- Cryptocoenia claudiensis4 sites
- Ctenostreon4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Enaulofungia, 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
15 references- Die Kalkschwämme der Unterordnung Inozoa Steinmann aus dem Oberen Jura von Württemberg (SW-Deutschland) [The Calcispongia of the suborder Inozoa Steinmann from the Upper Jurassic of Württemberg (SW Germany)]11
- Calcispongea from the Jurassic of Poland5
- Ecology of sponge reefs from the Upper Bathonian of Normandy4
- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)4
- Facies and palaeoecology of Upper Jurassic (Middle Oxfordian) coral reefs in England2
- Inozoa (Porifera) del Giurassico superiore dei dintorni di Valdobbiadene (Prealpi Venete) [Upper Jurassic Inozoa (Porifera) from Valdobbiadene area (Venetian Prealps)]2
- Palaeoecology of coralline sponge-coral meadows from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal2
- Die oberjurassische Korallenfauna von Württemberg2
- Some Inozoid sponges from Upper Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) Nayband Formation of Central Iran1
- Late Jurassic crinoids from Sudak environs (Crimea)1
- Die Korallenvorkommen von Gerstetten; fazielle und stratigraphische Zuordnung im Oberen Weißen Jura der östlichen Schwäbischen Alb1
- The Hampen Marly and White Limestones Formations: Florida-type carbonate lagoons in the Jurassic of central England1
Each of the 39 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. 3 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 Enaulofungia
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- Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Enaulofungia 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 itHolcospongiinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fromentel 1859