Heliospongia excavata

No picture of Heliospongia excavata 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 Heliospongia excavata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeliospongiaPBDB
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 least 9.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 315.2 Mya to 306 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 303.7 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferous324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 1 occurrence305–305 Mya — about 1 occurrence305–304 Mya — about 1 occurrence304–303 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences315.2 Mya306 Mya323.9 Mya303.2 Mya

5 occurrences of Heliospongia excavata on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

5 occurrences

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

Graford — 33.23°N, 97.83°WSan Emiliano — 42.95°N, 5.97°W

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The named rock units Heliospongia excavata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Heliospongia excavata and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Heliospongia excavata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Heliospongia excavata, 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

2 references

Each of the 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Heliospongia excavata 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 Heliospongia excavata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Heliospongia excavata 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 itHeliospongia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. King 1933