Heliospongia ramosa
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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 29 million years on record.
The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya.
9 occurrences of Heliospongia ramosa 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
9 occurrences- Permian100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Heliospongia ramosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Heliospongia ramosa and its relatives
PermianWhere Heliospongia ramosa and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
206 taxa- Enteletes wolfcampensis4 sites
- Limbella wolfcampensis4 sites
- Derbyia3 sites
- Rhynchopora molina3 sites
- Sollasia ostiolata3 sites
- Teguliferina boesei3 sites
- Derbyia profunda2 sites
- Eolyttonia fredericksi2 sites
- Hustedia trita trita2 sites
- Lemonea cylindrica2 sites
- Lemonea micra2 sites
- Meekella prionota2 sites
- Minispongia constricta2 sites
- Neochonetes2 sites
- Parenteletes superbus2 sites
- Rhipidomella miscella2 sites
- Tropidelasma strobilum2 sites
- Acosarina rectimarginata1 site
- Actinophrentis columnare1 site
- Agathammina1 site
- Akmilleria adkinsi1 site
- Altiplecus argutus1 site
- Amblysiphonella vesiculosa1 site
- Amplexocarinia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Heliospongia ramosa, 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
3 references- Sponges of the Permian Upper Capitan Limestone, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas4
- Late Paleozoic sponge faunas of the Texas region: The siliceous sponges4
- Microfacies and depositional structure of allochthonous carbonate base-of-slope deposits: The Late Permian Pietra di Salomone megablock, Sosio Valley (Western Sicily)1
Each of the 9 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 Heliospongia ramosa 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 Heliospongia ramosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heliospongia ramosa 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 itHeliospongia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Girty 1908