Molengraaffia

No picture of Molengraaffia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Molengraaffia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AuriculospongiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Agelasida

Time the record covers

At least 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Permian — about 7 of 37 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 37 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 37 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 30 of 37 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 37 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 2 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 3 occurrences255–252 Mya — about 2 occurrences252–250 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences239–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–234 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences230–227 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 1 occurrence225–223 Mya — about 1 occurrence223–221 Mya — about 1 occurrence221–218 Mya — about 1 occurrence218–216 Mya — about 1 occurrence216–214 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences214–211 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 5 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 6 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 5 occurrences205–202 Mya — about 4 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 2 occurrences264.28 Mya205.7 Mya268 Mya200 Mya

37 occurrences of Molengraaffia on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

37 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

8 formations

Nayband — 33.60°N, 51.00°ENayband — 33.53°N, 51.47°ENayband — 32.52°N, 57.37°ENayband — 32.94°N, 51.93°ENayband — 34.13°N, 58.20°EDachstein — 47.45°N, 13.07°EDachstein — 47.58°N, 14.47°EDachstein — 47.63°N, 13.17°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°EMaokou — 24.88°N, 105.18°EAdnet — 47.70°N, 13.17°EShaimak — 37.50°N, 74.50°EChichkautek — 37.78°N, 74.25°EGhalilah — 25.60°N, 56.06°ETalung — 23.70°N, 109.32°E

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The named rock units Molengraaffia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Molengraaffia and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Molengraaffia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

426 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Molengraaffia, 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

20 references

Each of the 37 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. 8 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

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No picture of Molengraaffia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Molengraaffia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Molengraaffia 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 itAuriculospongiinae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vinassa de Regny 1915