Spongeliomorpha

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 251 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 10 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 10 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 10 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 10 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 10 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences265–256 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences256–247 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences203–194 Mya — about 1 occurrence159–150 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences150–141 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences133–124 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences124–115 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences115–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–97 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences53–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.8–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence251.902 Mya11.7 ka265 Mya0 Mya

10 occurrences of Spongeliomorpha on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

10 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

8 formations

Ilundain Marls — 42.77°N, 1.80°WMokattam — 29.98°N, 31.13°EUpper Greensand — 50.83°N, 2.60°WZagaje — 51.14°N, 20.69°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EArdanatz Sandstone — 42.80°N, 1.55°WIkakern — 30.85°N, 9.00°W6 — 36.05°N, 103.25°E

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The named rock units Spongeliomorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spongeliomorpha and its relatives

Eocene

Where Spongeliomorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Spongeliomorpha, 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

8 references

Each of the 10 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 Spongeliomorpha 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 Spongeliomorpha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Spongeliomorpha 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 itDysideidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Saporta 1887