Heliospongia finksi

No picture of Heliospongia finksi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Heliospongia finksi, 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 most 7.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 8 of 8 occurrencesPermian267–267 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences267–267 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267.4 Mya259.4 Mya

8 occurrences of Heliospongia finksi on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

8 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

3 formations

Djebel Tebaga — 33.41°N, 10.17°EDjebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex — 33.37°N, 10.18°ESaikra Biohermal Complex — 33.45°N, 10.30°E

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The named rock units Heliospongia finksi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heliospongia finksi and its relatives

Permian

Where Heliospongia finksi and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

111 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Heliospongia finksi, 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

2 references

Each of the 8 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

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No picture of Heliospongia finksi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Heliospongia finksi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Termier and Termier 1977