Hyalospongea

No picture of Hyalospongea was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Hyalospongea firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Time the record covers

At least 425 million years on record.

The record covers at least 525.5 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 66 Mya.

Cambrian — about 9 of 96 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 65 of 96 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 96 occurrencesDevonian — about 5 of 96 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 5 of 96 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 7 of 96 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 96 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 96 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 96 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 96 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 96 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 96 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 96 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 96 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 96 occurrences548–532 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences532–515 Mya — about 4 occurrences515–499 Mya — about 5 occurrences483–466 Mya — about 3 occurrences466–450 Mya — about 62 occurrences450–434 Mya — about 2 occurrences434–417 Mya — about 1 occurrence417–401 Mya — about 4 occurrences368–352 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences352–335 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences335–319 Mya — about 3 occurrences319–302 Mya — about 1 occurrence286–270 Mya — about 7 occurrences270–253 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences253–237 Mya — about 1 occurrence237–220 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences171–155 Mya — about 1 occurrence106–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–73 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences73–57 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences525.5 Mya100.5 Mya548 Mya57 Mya

96 occurrences of Hyalospongea on record, most of them in the Ordovician. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

96 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

28 formations

Ffairfach Flags and Grits — 52.00°N, 4.00°WFlags and Grits — 52.00°N, 4.00°WFfairfach Ashes and Lavas — 52.00°N, 4.00°WBadger Flat — 36.93°N, 118.07°WBadger Flat — 36.95°N, 118.08°WGarra — 32.58°S, 148.95°EGarra — 33.95°S, 148.82°ERoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WAntelope Valley — 36.88°N, 116.67°WCathedral Mountain — 30.41°N, 103.11°WSkinner Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.21°WSkinner Ranch — 30.26°N, 103.34°WWirrealpa Limestone — 31.27°S, 138.93°EFfairfach Conglomerate — 52.00°N, 4.00°WLower Comley — 52.56°N, 2.76°WLower Comley — 52.65°N, 2.73°WDengying — 26.63°N, 105.85°ELower Limestone — 55.72°N, 4.76°WCosterfield Siltstone — 34.08°S, 151.02°EColsterdale Marine Beds — 54.07°N, 1.82°WContaya — 7.15°S, 74.57°WBird Spring — 36.55°N, 115.69°WTerres Noires — 44.30°N, 5.20°EFfairfach Pebbly Sands — 52.00°N, 4.00°WTabberabbera — 37.78°S, 147.38°ECal Tepe — 37.42°N, 31.85°EYangjiaping — 29.22°N, 110.85°EKorytnica Limestones — 48.94°N, 19.26°E

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The named rock units Hyalospongea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hyalospongea and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Hyalospongea and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

986 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 91 sites for Hyalospongea, 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

22 references

Each of the 96 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. 10 further references are not listed. 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 Hyalospongea was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Hyalospongea firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vosmaer 1886