Porospongia

Porospongia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StaurodermatidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 51 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 110.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 106.3 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 23 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 18 of 23 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 23 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous166–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 4 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 5 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 4 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences161.5 Mya110.1 Mya166 Mya105 Mya

23 occurrences of Porospongia 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

23 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

3 formations

Couches de Birmensdorf — 46.25°N, 5.67°ECalcaires Lites — 45.78°N, 5.52°EZawodzie — 50.43°N, 19.55°E

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The named rock units Porospongia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Porospongia and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Porospongia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

201 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Porospongia, 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

9 references

Each of the 23 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 Porospongia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Porospongia 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 itStaurodermatidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1849