Geoditesia
No picture of Geoditesia 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 Geoditesia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GeodiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Demospongiae
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Demospongiae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Demospongiae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 110.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Geoditesia on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
- Hythe Formation · Lower Greensand Group2
- Folkestone Formation · Lower Greensand Group1
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The named rock units Geoditesia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Geoditesia and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Geoditesia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Cheloniceras2 sites
- Doryderma2 sites
- Anomia pseudoradiata1 site
- Arca1 site
- Axinella1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Cheloniceras cornuelianum1 site
- Cleoniceras1 site
- Cucullaea1 site
- Cymatoceras pseudoelegans1 site
- Cyrtothyris cantabridgiensis1 site
- Cyrtothyris uniplicata1 site
- Dirrhopalum1 site
- Douvilleiceras mammillatum1 site
- Dufrenoyia1 site
- Glycymeris1 site
- Holaster1 site
- Inoceramus (Actinoceramus) salomoni1 site
- Martesia1 site
- Mastosia1 site
- Modiolus aequalis1 site
- Neohibolites1 site
- Oblongarcula oblonga1 site
- Oculina hobleyi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Geoditesia, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Geoditesia 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 Geoditesia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Geoditesia 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 itGeodiinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhuravleva 1962