Spongaster

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpongodiscidaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 173 occurrencesMiocene — about 72 of 173 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 40 of 173 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 59 of 173 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 7 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 9 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 9 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 9 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 9 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 9 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 9 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 9 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 11 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 12 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 11 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 10 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 12 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 15 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 30 occurrences20.45 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

173 occurrences of Spongaster on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

173 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

1 formation

Esmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°W

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The named rock units Spongaster has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 170 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spongaster and its relatives

Miocene

Where Spongaster and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

126 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 161 sites for Spongaster, 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

16 references

Each of the 173 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. 4 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

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

No 3D scan of Spongaster 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 itSpongodiscidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1860