Spongophyllum sedgwicki
No picture of Spongophyllum sedgwicki 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 Spongophyllum sedgwicki, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpongophyllumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At most 24 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Spongophyllum sedgwicki on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Spongophyllum sedgwicki has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spongophyllum sedgwicki and its relatives
SilurianWhere Spongophyllum sedgwicki and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Alveolites2 sites
- Atrypa reticularis2 sites
- Chonophyllum magnificum2 sites
- Cladopora2 sites
- Cladopora labiosa2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Cyathophyllum2 sites
- Diphyphyllum2 sites
- Favosites2 sites
- Favosites hemispherica2 sites
- Gypidula2 sites
- Hindia sphaeroidalis2 sites
- Schizophoria striatula2 sites
- Athyris1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Camarotoechia prolifica1 site
- Cladopora roemeri1 site
- Cupularostrum congregata1 site
- Cyathophyllum robustum1 site
- Cyathophyllum rugosum1 site
- Cystiphyllum vesiculosum1 site
- Diphyphyllum bellis1 site
- Diphyphyllum simcoense1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Spongophyllum sedgwicki, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Spongophyllum sedgwicki 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 Spongophyllum sedgwicki, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spongophyllum sedgwicki 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 itSpongophyllum through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Edwards and Haime 1851