Fanthalamia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FanthalamiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Verticillitida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Verticillitida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Verticillitida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
15 occurrences of Fanthalamia on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
15 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
5 formations
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The named rock units Fanthalamia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Fanthalamia and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Fanthalamia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
167 taxa- Cinnabaria expansa5 sites
- Gastropoda5 sites
- Chondrocoenia waltheri4 sites
- Retiophyllia4 sites
- Bivalvia3 sites
- Echinoidea3 sites
- Eocomoseris ramosa3 sites
- Paradeningeria alpina3 sites
- Retiophyllia norica3 sites
- Spongiomorpha tenuis3 sites
- Alpinophyllia flexuosa2 sites
- Amblysiphonella2 sites
- Anguispongia parva2 sites
- Astraeomorpha confusa2 sites
- Astraeomorpha confusa minor2 sites
- Avicularia cf. sayeri2 sites
- Cardinia2 sites
- Cassianella2 sites
- Ceriostella martini2 sites
- Ceriostella parva2 sites
- Cinnabaria minima2 sites
- Colospongia2 sites
- Cristellaria (Marginulina)2 sites
- Cryptocoelia zitteli2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Fanthalamia, 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- Die systematische Stellung der thalamiden Schwämme und ihre Bedeutung in der Erdgeschichte3
- Hypercalcified sphinctozoan sponges from Upper Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) reefs of the Nayband Formation (Central and Northeast Iran)2
- A new Triassic sponge from the Antimonio terrane, Sonora, Mexico2
- Upper Triassic reef fauna from the Quesnel terrane, central British Columbia, Canada2
- Paleoecology, structure, and distribution of Triassic coral buildups in western North America2
- Upper Triassic (Norian) hypercalcified sponges from the Musandam Peninsula (United Arab Emirates and Oman)1
- Fanthalamia kadiri nov. sp., a new "sphinctozoan" sponge from the Triassic (Carnian) of Turkey1
- Stratigraphy and regional significance of Mississippian to Jurassic rocks in Sierra Santa Teresa, Sonora, Mexico1
- Upper Triassic invertebrates from the Antimonio Formation, Sonora, Mexico1
Each of the 15 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 content0
No picture of Fanthalamia 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 Fanthalamia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fanthalamia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFanthalamiinae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Senowbari-Daryan 1990