Patellispongia

No picture of Patellispongia 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 Patellispongia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnthaspidellidaePBDB
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 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 470.3 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 19 of 35 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 16 of 35 occurrencesSilurian478–476 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 3 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 2 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 2 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 2 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 2 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–457 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–448 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 12 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 3 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences470.3 Mya426.7 Mya478 Mya422 Mya

35 occurrences of Patellispongia on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

35 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

9 formations

Delorme — 62.40°N, 127.07°WSan Juan — 30.00°S, 69.00°WSan Juan — 31.00°S, 69.00°WSan Juan — 31.33°S, 68.55°WSan Juan — 31.01°S, 68.76°WSan Juan — 30.58°S, 68.85°WLos Azules — 30.75°S, 68.75°WAntelope Valley — 39.05°N, 116.73°WMalongulli — 33.58°S, 148.89°EShingle Limestone — 38.40°N, 114.97°WBadger Flat — 36.88°N, 118.07°WCape Phillips — 75.75°N, 94.40°WRed River — 52.13°N, 97.52°W

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The named rock units Patellispongia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Patellispongia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Patellispongia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

128 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Patellispongia, 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

11 references

Each of the 35 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 Patellispongia 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 Patellispongia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Patellispongia 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 itAnthaspidellidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bassler 1927