Pentaspongodiscus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RelindellidaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 136 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 136 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 68 of 136 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 67 of 136 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 136 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247–245 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 7 occurrences243–241 Mya — about 16 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 18 occurrences239–237 Mya — about 27 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 10 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 5 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences231–229 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences223–220 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 15 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 22 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 9 occurrences254.14 Mya205.7 Mya261 Mya200 Mya

136 occurrences of Pentaspongodiscus on record, most of them in the Middle 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

136 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

Sapadere — 36.42°N, 32.42°ESandilands — 52.75°N, 131.55°WSandilands — 53.91°N, 133.16°WSandilands — 53.03°N, 131.88°WKayabuku — 40.38°N, 40.67°EGökdere — 36.87°N, 31.68°EBuchenstein — 45.75°N, 11.33°EGoestling — 47.80°N, 14.93°EMuyinhe — 22.65°N, 99.68°ESlate Unit — 35.50°N, 86.25°E

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The named rock units Pentaspongodiscus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pentaspongodiscus and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Pentaspongodiscus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

440 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 82 sites for Pentaspongodiscus, 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

17 references

Each of the 136 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. 5 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 Pentaspongodiscus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pentaspongodiscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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What may have been alongside itRelindellidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kozur and Mostler 1979