Spongosphaera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StylosphaeridaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 378 million years on record.

The record covers at least 379 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 0 Mya.

Devonian — about 4 of 157 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 157 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 157 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 157 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 157 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 157 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 157 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 157 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 157 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 157 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 157 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 157 occurrencesEocene — about 138 of 157 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 157 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 157 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 157 occurrencesPleistocene — about 13 of 157 occurrences390–377 Mya — about 4 occurrences78–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–52 Mya — about 16 occurrences52–39 Mya — about 110 occurrences39–26 Mya — about 13 occurrences13–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences379 Mya129 ka390 Mya0 Mya

157 occurrences of Spongosphaera on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

157 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

2 formations

Lefkara — 35.08°N, 33.67°EGogo — 18.43°S, 125.90°E

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The named rock units Spongosphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 147 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spongosphaera and its relatives

Eocene

Where Spongosphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

303 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 129 sites for Spongosphaera, 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

12 references

Each of the 157 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

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

No 3D scan of Spongosphaera 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 itStylosphaeridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1847