Laocoetis procumbens
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LaocoetisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At least 8.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 159 Mya to 145.06 Mya.
9 occurrences of Laocoetis procumbens on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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- Late Jurassic100%
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
1 formation
- La Manga Formation · Lotena Group2
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The named rock units Laocoetis procumbens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Laocoetis procumbens and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Laocoetis procumbens and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
217 taxa- Craticularia parallela6 sites
- Cribrospongia reticulata6 sites
- Cnemopeltia (Cnemopeltia) rimulosum5 sites
- Cribrospongia5 sites
- Cylindrophyma milleporata5 sites
- Cypellia rugosa5 sites
- Dictyonocoelia schweiggeri5 sites
- Hyalotragos patella5 sites
- Hyalotragos pezizoides5 sites
- Keuppiella pertusa5 sites
- Linonema calyx5 sites
- Ordinatus texturatus5 sites
- Sphenaulax costata5 sites
- Chonellopsis striata4 sites
- Dictyonocoelia lineatum4 sites
- Hyalotragos rugosum4 sites
- Laocoetis clathrata4 sites
- Lecanella pateraeformis4 sites
- Pachyteichisma4 sites
- Platychonia schlotheimi4 sites
- Polygonatium sphaeroides4 sites
- Porospongia marginata4 sites
- Pyrgochonia (Actinostrombus) radiata4 sites
- Ramispongia ramosa4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Laocoetis procumbens, 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
6 references- Upper Jurassic siliceous sponges from the Swabian Alb: taxonomy and paleoecology4
- Oxfordian sponge association from the Neuquen basin, Mendoza, west central Argentina2
- Endemic features of the Upper Jurassic sponges in the western central Dobrogea (Atarnati-Cechirgea perimeter)1
- Middle to Upper Oxfordian sponges of the Polish Jura1
- Kieselschwämme und Schwamm-Ökologie im Korallenkalk des oberen Malm von Laisacker bei Neuburg an der Donau [Siliceous sponges and sponge ecology in the coral limestones from the Upper Jurassic of Laisacker near Neuburg/Donau]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
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No picture of Laocoetis procumbens 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 Laocoetis procumbens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Laocoetis procumbens 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 itLaocoetis through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1826)