Guettardiscyphia stellata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GuettardiscyphiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hexactinosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hexactinosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hexactinosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At least 29 million years on record.
The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya.
11 occurrences of Guettardiscyphia stellata on record, most of them in the Late 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
11 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
2 formations
- Upper Chalk Formation · Chalk Group2
- Neuburger Weiß Formation1
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The named rock units Guettardiscyphia stellata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Guettardiscyphia stellata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Guettardiscyphia stellata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Rhytistamnia longitudinalis2 sites
- Strephinia convoluta2 sites
- Acrognathus boops1 site
- Becksia haugi1 site
- Callopegma ficoideum1 site
- Camerospongia elongata1 site
- Coeloptychium1 site
- Coscinopora infundibuliformis1 site
- Coscinopora quincuncialis1 site
- Craticularia stellata1 site
- Cribrospongia1 site
- Exanthesis (Exanthesis) reticulata1 site
- Jerea cordiformis1 site
- Laocoetis fittoni1 site
- Laocoetis virgatula1 site
- Leiostracosia punctata1 site
- Leptophragma1 site
- Microblastidium gaultinum1 site
- Nelumbia tuberosa1 site
- Ophrystoma micrommata1 site
- Orthodiscus1 site
- Pachyteichisma gresslyi1 site
- Plectascus labrosus1 site
- Plocoscyphia communis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Guettardiscyphia stellata, 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
4 references- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)5
- Hexactinellid faunas in the chalk of England and Ireland3
- Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Cretace inferieur2
- Die Schwammfauna der Oberkreide von Neuburg (Donau) [The Upper Cretaceous sponge fauna from Neuburg (Donau)]1
Each of the 11 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 Guettardiscyphia stellata 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 Guettardiscyphia stellata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Guettardiscyphia stellata 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 itGuettardiscyphia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Michelin 1847)