Epitheles hemisphaerica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EpithelesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Agelasida
Time the record covers
At least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 143.1 Mya.
12 occurrences of Epitheles hemisphaerica 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
12 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Epitheles hemisphaerica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Epitheles hemisphaerica and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Epitheles hemisphaerica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
268 taxa- Cribrospongia reticulata5 sites
- Corynella quenstedti4 sites
- Cylindrophyma milleporata4 sites
- Eudea perforata4 sites
- Eudea pisum4 sites
- Hyalotragos pezizoides4 sites
- Pareudea bronnii4 sites
- Peronidella cylindrica4 sites
- Sphenaulax costata4 sites
- Casearia articulata3 sites
- Cnemidiastrum (Tremastrum) pluristellatum3 sites
- Cnemidiastrum stellatum3 sites
- Craticularia parallela3 sites
- Laocoetis clathrata3 sites
- Laocoetis paradoxa3 sites
- Peronidella3 sites
- Radicispongia radiciformis3 sites
- Bivalvia2 sites
- Chlamys2 sites
- Cnemidiastrum striatopunctatum2 sites
- Cnemopeltia (Cnemopeltia) rimulosum2 sites
- Corynella costata2 sites
- Cribrospongia2 sites
- Cypellia infundibuliformis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Epitheles hemisphaerica, 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- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)5
- 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)]3
- Comparative palaeoecology of marly coralline sponge-bearing reefal associations from the Kimmeridgina (Upper Jurassic) of Portugal and southwestern Germany1
- Inozoa (Porifera) del Giurassico superiore dei dintorni di Valdobbiadene (Prealpi Venete) [Upper Jurassic Inozoa (Porifera) from Valdobbiadene area (Venetian Prealps)]1
- Calcispongea from the Jurassic of Poland1
- Kalkschwämme aus dem Korallenkalk des oberen Malm von Laisacker bei Neuburg an der Donau [Calcareous sponges from the Upper Malm coral limestone of Laisacker near Neuburg, Donau]1
Each of the 12 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
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No picture of Epitheles hemisphaerica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Epitheles hemisphaerica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Epitheles hemisphaerica was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itEpitheles through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1826)