Siphonia ficus
No picture of Siphonia ficus 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 Siphonia ficus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SiphoniaPBDB
- 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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
2 occurrences of Siphonia ficus 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.
Siphonia ficus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Siphonia ficus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Amphithelion cupula1 site
- Aulaxinia ventricosa1 site
- Aulosoma radiciformis1 site
- Callopegma acaule1 site
- Callopegma ficoideum1 site
- Carterella cylindrica1 site
- Coelocorypha bulbosa1 site
- Coscinostoma fragilis1 site
- Cycloclema compressa1 site
- Discodermia galloprovincialis1 site
- Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri1 site
- Eustrobilus callosus1 site
- Guettardiscyphia stellata1 site
- Heterostinia obliqua1 site
- Heterostinia phytoniformis1 site
- Homalodoriana1 site
- Homalodoriana breviramosa1 site
- Homalodoriana ficus1 site
- Homalodoriana plana1 site
- Homalodoriana polonica1 site
- Homalodoriana pusilla1 site
- Homalodoriana skrainivensis1 site
- Homalodoriana tuberosa1 site
- Jerea cordiformis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Siphonia ficus, 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
2 references- Siliceous sponges from the Upper Cretaceous of Poland, part 1: Tetraxonia1
- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)1
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. 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 Siphonia ficus 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 Siphonia ficus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Siphonia ficus 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 itSiphonia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goldfuss 1833