Spongodiscidae

Spongodiscidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpumellariaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 259 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 8 of 2620 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 2620 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 2620 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 9 of 2620 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 43 of 2620 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 69 of 2620 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 80 of 2620 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 62 of 2620 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 106 of 2620 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 197 of 2620 occurrencesEocene — about 14 of 2620 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 2620 occurrencesMiocene — about 144 of 2620 occurrencesPliocene — about 280 of 2620 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1593 of 2620 occurrences270–261 Mya — about 2 occurrences261–252 Mya — about 6 occurrences243–234 Mya — about 3 occurrences234–225 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences207–198 Mya — about 16 occurrences198–189 Mya — about 4 occurrences189–180 Mya — about 19 occurrences180–171 Mya — about 41 occurrences171–162 Mya — about 37 occurrences162–153 Mya — about 26 occurrences153–144 Mya — about 52 occurrences144–135 Mya — about 8 occurrences135–126 Mya — about 25 occurrences126–117 Mya — about 31 occurrences108–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–90 Mya — about 5 occurrences90–81 Mya — about 48 occurrences81–72 Mya — about 12 occurrences72–63 Mya — about 171 occurrences63–54 Mya — about 67 occurrences54–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–36 Mya — about 8 occurrences36–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–18 Mya — about 10 occurrences18–9.0 Mya — about 64 occurrences9.0–0 Mya — about 1958 occurrences259.857 Mya11.7 ka270 Mya0 Mya

2,620 occurrences of Spongodiscidae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

2,620 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

45 formations

Mead Hill — 41.92°S, 174.07°EMaiolica — 43.35°N, 12.71°EMaiolica — 43.48°N, 12.72°EMaiolica — 45.64°N, 9.95°EAmeghino — 64.47°S, 58.97°WPhantom Creek — 53.42°N, 132.27°WUrakawa — 42.17°N, 142.82°EKirsanovskaya — 52.55°N, 42.57°ECzajakowa Radiolarite — 49.37°N, 20.62°ESandilands — 52.75°N, 131.55°WWahrah — 22.97°N, 57.06°EWahrah — 22.73°N, 57.40°EWahrah — 22.74°N, 57.26°ELower Kanguk — 78.18°N, 99.77°WAnchorage — 62.60°S, 61.17°WAmden — 47.75°N, 11.45°EAmden — 47.73°N, 11.52°ERosso ad Aptici — 45.88°N, 8.64°ECalcare Selcifero di Fonzaso — 46.02°N, 11.75°EAramachay — 6.37°S, 77.90°WFonzaso — 45.88°N, 8.64°EFonzaso — 46.05°N, 11.88°EArawhero — 39.88°S, 174.73°EOpalinuston — 47.95°N, 7.82°EGraham Island — 53.40°N, 132.27°WEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WSnowshoe — 44.13°N, 119.12°WSnowshoe — 44.13°N, 118.97°WTakinoue — 42.80°N, 142.35°ERosso ad Aptici — 45.90°N, 9.00°ESoccher — 46.19°N, 12.30°E

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The named rock units Spongodiscidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2,249 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spongodiscidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Spongodiscidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,362 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 962 sites for Spongodiscidae, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

93 references

Each of the 2,620 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. 81 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 Spongodiscidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Spongodiscidae was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haeckel 1862