Protospongia conica

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 137 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 530.7 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 6 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 6 occurrencesSilurian — about 3 of 6 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 2 of 6 occurrencesDevonian534–529 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences529–523 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences523–518 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–436 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences436–431 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences431–426 Mya — about 1 occurrence420–415 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences415–410 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences384–379 Mya — about 1 occurrence521 Mya383.4 Mya534 Mya379 Mya

6 occurrences of Protospongia conica on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

6 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

Hetang — 29.92°N, 118.08°ERoberts Mountains — 41.28°N, 116.07°WRed Hill Beds — 40.05°N, 116.04°W

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The named rock units Protospongia conica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protospongia conica and its relatives

Silurian

Where Protospongia conica and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

53 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Protospongia conica, 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

5 references

Each of the 6 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 Protospongia conica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Protospongia conica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protospongia conica 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 itProtospongia through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rigby and Harris 1979