Falospongia ramosa
No picture of Falospongia ramosa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Falospongia ramosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FalospongiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Falospongia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Falospongia
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Falospongia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Falospongia ramosa on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
4 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
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The named rock units Falospongia ramosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Falospongia ramosa and its relatives
CambrianWhere Falospongia ramosa and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Anomalocaris canadensis1 site
- Caryosyntrips serratus1 site
- Choia carteri1 site
- Choia hindei1 site
- Choia ridleyi1 site
- Eiffelia globosa1 site
- Hamptonia bowerbanki1 site
- Hazelia dignata1 site
- Hazelia palmata1 site
- Herpetogaster collinsi1 site
- Hurdia victoria1 site
- Leptomitus lineatus1 site
- Naraoia magna1 site
- Nectocaris pteryx1 site
- Protoprisma annulata1 site
- Takakkawia lineata1 site
- Vauxia bellula1 site
- Vauxia gracilenta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Falospongia ramosa, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Sponges of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and Stephen Formations, British Columbia2
- Paleocommunity analysis of the Burgess Shale Tulip Beds, Mount Stephen, British Columbia: Comparison with the Walcott Quarry and implications for community variation in the Burgess Shale1
- A new, Middle Cambrian, Burgess Shale-type biota, Bolaspidella zone, Chancellor Basin, southeastern British Columbia1
Each of the 4 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 Falospongia ramosa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Falospongia ramosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Falospongia ramosa 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 itFalospongia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rigby and Collins 2004