Spongiomorpha

Spongiomorpha

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpongiomorphidaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Hydrozoa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hydrozoa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hydrozoa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hydrozoa

Time the record covers

At least 130 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 94 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 94 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 94 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 70 of 94 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 94 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 94 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 8 of 94 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 10 of 94 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous257–252 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences252–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–243 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences243–238 Mya — about 2 occurrences238–234 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences234–229 Mya — about 2 occurrences229–224 Mya — about 9 occurrences224–220 Mya — about 13 occurrences220–215 Mya — about 12 occurrences215–210 Mya — about 9 occurrences210–206 Mya — about 13 occurrences206–201 Mya — about 12 occurrences196–192 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences192–187 Mya — about 2 occurrences187–182 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences164–159 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences159–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–150 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–145 Mya — about 3 occurrences145–140 Mya — about 2 occurrences140–136 Mya — about 2 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 6 occurrences251.902 Mya121.4 Mya257 Mya117 Mya

94 occurrences of Spongiomorpha 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

94 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

20 formations

Luning — 38.43°N, 118.05°WLuning — 38.43°N, 118.12°WLuning — 38.35°N, 117.94°WSchrattenkalk — 47.43°N, 10.23°ESchrattenkalk — 47.43°N, 10.25°EKamishak — 57.72°N, 155.30°WKamishak — 59.78°N, 154.50°WMartin Bridge — 44.97°N, 117.23°WMartin Bridge — 44.95°N, 117.33°WMartin Bridge — 45.32°N, 117.31°WMartin Bridge — 45.37°N, 117.35°WNehenta — 55.17°N, 131.80°WNehenta — 55.22°N, 131.98°WIkenoue — 34.02°N, 135.18°ENayband — 33.12°N, 51.98°ENayband — 32.37°N, 57.47°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°EDachstein — 47.63°N, 13.17°EMotianling — 31.95°N, 90.80°EJebel Wasa — 24.70°N, 55.87°EHosselkus — 40.93°N, 122.13°WBortepa — 37.50°N, 74.50°EPlassen — 47.58°N, 13.98°EAksala — 61.07°N, 134.88°WMartin Bridge Limestone — 45.12°N, 116.83°WBaldonnel — 56.05°N, 123.01°WYatsuji — 33.47°N, 133.08°ECsövar — 47.82°N, 19.30°EChangxing — 25.83°N, 106.08°EGhalilah — 25.60°N, 56.06°E

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The named rock units Spongiomorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spongiomorpha and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

764 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Spongiomorpha, 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

40 references

Each of the 94 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. 28 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 content1

Picture of Spongiomorpha

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Spongiomorpha 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 itSpongiomorphidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frech 1890