Spongiomma

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpumellariaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 56 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 143.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 137.05 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 53 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 7 of 53 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 53 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 32 of 53 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 13 of 53 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous203–200 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences200–198 Mya — about 1 occurrence185–183 Mya — about 5 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 5 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 11 occurrences147–145 Mya — about 10 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 2 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 5 occurrences140–138 Mya — about 5 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 2 occurrences199.5 Mya143.1 Mya203 Mya136 Mya

53 occurrences of Spongiomma on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

53 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

7 formations

Ameghino — 64.47°S, 58.97°WWahrah — 22.97°N, 57.06°EWahrah — 22.73°N, 57.40°EAnchorage — 62.60°S, 61.17°WRosso ad Aptici — 45.90°N, 9.00°EDachhornstein — 48.88°N, 11.01°ELimanangcong — 11.99°N, 120.21°ERosso ad Aptici — 45.88°N, 8.64°E

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The named rock units Spongiomma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spongiomma and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Spongiomma and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

613 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Spongiomma, 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

6 references

Each of the 53 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 Spongiomma 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 Spongiomma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Spongiomma 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.

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What may have been alongside itSpumellaria through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

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