Pycnodesma globosa
No picture of Pycnodesma globosa 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 Pycnodesma globosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PycnodesmaPBDB
- 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 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
6 occurrences of Pycnodesma globosa on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pycnodesma globosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pycnodesma globosa and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pycnodesma globosa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
181 taxa- Leiochonia cryptoporosa2 sites
- Acrochordonia auricula1 site
- Acrochordonia ramosa1 site
- Amphilectella piriformis1 site
- Amphithelion (Amphithelion) macrommata1 site
- Amphithelion cupula1 site
- Andreaea hexagonalis1 site
- Aphrocallistes alveolites1 site
- Aphrocallistes cylindrodactylus1 site
- Astrocladia subramosa1 site
- Aulaxinia fallax1 site
- Aulaxinia sulcifera1 site
- Auloplax spongiosus1 site
- Aulosoma radiciformis1 site
- Balantionella elegans1 site
- Becksia arborea1 site
- Becksia augustae1 site
- Becksia feuerwehri1 site
- Bolitesia mirabilis1 site
- Callicylix (Callicylix) farreides1 site
- Callicylix (Cyclostigma) acinosa1 site
- Callicylix (Cyclostigma) maeandrina1 site
- Callodictyon infundibulum1 site
- Callopegma acaule1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pycnodesma globosa, 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
4 references- Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Crétacé supérieur du nord de la France3
- Les spongiaires Turoniens du synclinal d'Eygaliers (Baronnies, Drome) [Turonian sponges from the Eygaliers syncline (Baronnies, Drome)]1
- Die Schwammfauna der Oberkreide von Neuburg (Donau) [The Upper Cretaceous sponge fauna from Neuburg (Donau)]1
- Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia und Silicea incert. sedis [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia and Silicea incert. sedis]1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Pycnodesma globosa 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 Pycnodesma globosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pycnodesma globosa 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPycnodesma through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schrammen 1910