Seliscothon explanatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SeliscothonPBDB
- 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 most 35 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Seliscothon explanatus 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
2 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.
Seliscothon explanatus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Seliscothon explanatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Aulosoma radiciformis2 sites
- Amphithelion (Amphithelion) macrommata1 site
- Bolospongia constricta1 site
- Bolospongia globata1 site
- Callopegma schloenbachi1 site
- Carterella spiculigera1 site
- Eulespongia texta1 site
- Heterostinia obliqua1 site
- Jereica clava1 site
- Jereica polystoma1 site
- Lecanella pateraeformis1 site
- Pachastrella convoluta1 site
- Pachinion scriptum1 site
- Phymatella reticulata1 site
- Plinthosella squamosa1 site
- Ragadinia rimosa1 site
- Scytalia fastigiata1 site
- Scytalia terebrata1 site
- Seliscothon planus1 site
- Siphonia koenigi1 site
- Stichophyma tumidum1 site
- Tethyopsis cretaceus1 site
- Turonia variabilis1 site
- Ventriculites cribrosus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Seliscothon explanatus, 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
1 reference- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)2
Each of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Seliscothon explanatus 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 Seliscothon explanatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Seliscothon explanatus 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 itSeliscothon through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Roemer 1864)