Prestellispongia permica
No picture of Prestellispongia permica 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 Prestellispongia permica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PrestellispongiaPBDB
- 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 most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
29 occurrences of Prestellispongia permica on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
29 occurrences- Permian100%
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
6 formations
- Saikra Biohermal Complex Formation7
- Middle Shaly Facies Formation3
- Djebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex Formation3
- Djebel Tebaga Formation2
- Oum el Afia Shale Formation1
- Oum el Afia Shale (?) Formation1
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The named rock units Prestellispongia permica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Prestellispongia permica and its relatives
PermianWhere Prestellispongia permica and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
236 taxa- Intratubospongia osiensis21 sites
- Stellispongiella bacilla18 sites
- Pseudohimatella pauciporata17 sites
- Prestellispongia paula15 sites
- Auriculospongia auriculata13 sites
- Prestellispongia lobata13 sites
- Stellispongiella insculpta13 sites
- Colospongia cortexifera11 sites
- Exotubispongia virgulata9 sites
- Permocorynella ovoidalis9 sites
- Radiotrabeculopora xiangboensis9 sites
- Spica spica9 sites
- Discosiphonella mammilosus8 sites
- Radiotrabeculopora reticulata8 sites
- Stellispongiella reticulata8 sites
- Imperatoria voluta7 sites
- Laccosiphonella merlai7 sites
- Polytubifungia maxima7 sites
- Pseudoguadalupia alveolaris7 sites
- Sollasia ostiolata7 sites
- Stellispongiella porosa7 sites
- Auriculospongia perforata6 sites
- Cystothalamia conica5 sites
- Estrellospongia grossa5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Prestellispongia permica, 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
3 references- Upper Permian inozoid, demospongid, and hexactinellid sponges from Djebel Tebaga, Tunisia27
- Microfacies and depositional structure of allochthonous carbonate base-of-slope deposits: The Late Permian Pietra di Salomone megablock, Sosio Valley (Western Sicily)1
- Monographie paleontologique des affleurements permiens du Djebel Tebaga (Sud Tunisien)1
Each of the 29 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
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No picture of Prestellispongia permica 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 Prestellispongia permica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Prestellispongia permica 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 itPrestellispongia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Parona 1933)