Sphenaulax globosa

No picture of Sphenaulax 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 Sphenaulax globosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SphenaulaxPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132.6 Mya106.3 Mya137.8 Mya99.8 Mya

2 occurrences of Sphenaulax globosa on record, most of them in the Early 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

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.

Sphenaulax globosa and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Sphenaulax globosa and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sphenaulax globosa, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Sphenaulax 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 Sphenaulax globosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sphenaulax globosa 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 itSphenaulax through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lagneau-Herenger 1962