Spongites

Spongites

Derek Keats · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpongitaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 7 of 281 occurrencesEocene — about 53 of 281 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 60 of 281 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 116 of 281 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 24 of 281 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 281 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 13 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 16 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 8 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 6 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 6 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 13 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 19 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 11 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 7 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 7 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 14 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 15 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 18 occurrences10–8.1 Mya — about 21 occurrences8.1–6.0 Mya — about 23 occurrences6.0–4.0 Mya — about 18 occurrences4.0–2.0 Mya — about 15 occurrences2.0–0 Mya — about 20 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka60 Mya0 Mya

281 occurrences of Spongites 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

281 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

42 formations

Tortonian Limestone — 35.00°N, 24.76°ENovaglie — 39.87°N, 18.38°ENovaglie — 39.78°N, 18.33°ENovaglie — 39.78°N, 18.37°EMolare — 44.37°N, 8.20°EMolare — 44.50°N, 8.48°EMolare — 44.50°N, 8.36°EGuitar Formation — 9.12°N, 92.80°EMarne di Priabona — 45.43°N, 11.55°EEl Bosque — 37.90°N, 1.57°WLakadong — 25.19°N, 91.76°EGornji Grad — 46.19°N, 14.68°EGornji Grad — 46.32°N, 14.59°EGornji Grad — 46.28°N, 14.25°ENavarri — 42.38°N, 0.39°ECalcare Massiccio — 42.93°N, 11.87°ETaballar Limestone — 0.48°S, 117.11°ETaballar Limestone — 0.43°S, 117.14°EMonte S Angelo — 42.69°N, 9.32°ECalcareniti di Castelgomberto — 45.48°N, 11.58°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.42°ESerraduy — 42.32°N, 0.57°E"Orbulina marls" — 41.17°N, 14.63°EGornji Grad Beds — 46.28°N, 14.80°ENovaglie — 37.13°N, 2.08°WPrang Limestone — 25.20°N, 91.60°EQom — 37.34°N, 44.94°ECalcari Nummulitici — 45.42°N, 11.57°ECalcari Nummulitici — 45.43°N, 11.55°EGarbova de Sus — 46.37°N, 23.66°ECalcari a Briozoi e Litotamni — 41.40°N, 14.01°ENago Limestone — 45.89°N, 10.88°E

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The named rock units Spongites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 118 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spongites and its relatives

Miocene

Where Spongites and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

273 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 211 sites for Spongites, 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

77 references

Each of the 281 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. 65 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 Spongites

Credit
Derek Keats
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Spongites 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 itSpongitaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kützing 1841