Lecanella pateraeformis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LecanellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lithistida
Time the record covers
At least 60 million years on record.
The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 159 Mya to 66 Mya.
12 occurrences of Lecanella pateraeformis 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
12 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Lecanella pateraeformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lecanella pateraeformis and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Lecanella pateraeformis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
225 taxa- Cylindrophyma milleporata8 sites
- Cypellia rugosa8 sites
- Chonellopsis striata7 sites
- Cnemopeltia (Cnemopeltia) rimulosum7 sites
- Dictyonocoelia schweiggeri7 sites
- Hyalotragos pezizoides7 sites
- Sphenaulax costata7 sites
- Trochobolus labyrinthicus7 sites
- Craticularia parallela6 sites
- Cribrospongia6 sites
- Dictyonocoelia lineatum6 sites
- Hyalotragos patella6 sites
- Hyalotragos rugosum6 sites
- Keuppiella pertusa6 sites
- Ordinatus texturatus6 sites
- Pachyteichisma6 sites
- Pachycothon5 sites
- Platychonia schlotheimi5 sites
- Porospongia marginata5 sites
- Pyrgochonia (Pyrgochonia) acetabulum5 sites
- Ramispongia ramosa5 sites
- Sporadopyle obliqua5 sites
- Tremaphorus apertus5 sites
- Trochobolus cupulus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Lecanella pateraeformis, 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
4 references- Upper Jurassic siliceous sponges from the Swabian Alb: taxonomy and paleoecology9
- Comparative palaeoecology of marly coralline sponge-bearing reefal associations from the Kimmeridgina (Upper Jurassic) of Portugal and southwestern Germany1
- Die Schwammfauna der Oberkreide von Neuburg (Donau) [The Upper Cretaceous sponge fauna from Neuburg (Donau)]1
- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)1
Each of the 12 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 content1

Picture of Lecanella pateraeformis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lecanella pateraeformis 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 itLecanella through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zittel 1878