Sphinctozoa

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PoriferaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Porifera
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Porifera
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Porifera
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 371 million years on record.

The record covers at least 430.6 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 56 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 14 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 14 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 14 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 14 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 14 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 14 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 14 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 14 occurrences440–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence323–310 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences310–297 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences271–258 Mya — about 1 occurrence244–231 Mya — about 1 occurrence231–218 Mya — about 2 occurrences218–205 Mya — about 3 occurrences205–192 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–153 Mya — about 1 occurrence153–140 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence430.6 Mya59.24 Mya440 Mya48 Mya

14 occurrences of Sphinctozoa on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

14 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

5 formations

Vellerat — 47.30°N, 7.32°EYak Kharka — 28.67°N, 84.25°ELores Limestone — 43.00°N, 4.48°WNayband — 32.95°N, 52.08°EDelorme — 62.40°N, 127.07°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Sphinctozoa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphinctozoa and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Sphinctozoa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

222 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Sphinctozoa, 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

14 references

Each of the 14 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 Sphinctozoa 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 Sphinctozoa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sphinctozoa 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPorifera through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Steinmann 1882)