Spongostaurus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrbiculiformidaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 115 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 69 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 23 of 69 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 12 of 69 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 21 of 69 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 69 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 69 occurrencesLate Cretaceous204–200 Mya — about 2 occurrences200–195 Mya — about 6 occurrences195–191 Mya — about 3 occurrences191–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–182 Mya — about 2 occurrences182–177 Mya — about 5 occurrences177–173 Mya — about 5 occurrences173–168 Mya — about 9 occurrences168–164 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences164–159 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences159–155 Mya — about 1 occurrence155–150 Mya — about 1 occurrence150–146 Mya — about 14 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 9 occurrences141–137 Mya — about 5 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences199.5 Mya83.6 Mya204 Mya70 Mya

69 occurrences of Spongostaurus on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

69 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

16 formations

Ameghino — 64.47°S, 58.97°WAmeghino — 63.97°S, 58.17°WGraham Island — 53.40°N, 132.27°WWahrah — 22.97°N, 57.06°EWahrah — 22.73°N, 57.40°EPhantom Creek — 53.42°N, 132.27°WArawhero — 39.88°S, 174.73°ERewarewa — 39.88°S, 174.73°EAnchorage — 62.60°S, 61.17°WJurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°EOpalinuston — 47.95°N, 7.82°EUrakawa — 42.17°N, 142.82°ERosso ad Aptici — 45.88°N, 8.64°ERosso ad Aptici — 45.90°N, 9.00°ELimanangcong — 11.99°N, 120.21°EDachhornstein — 48.88°N, 11.01°EAramachay — 6.37°S, 77.90°WA — 44.98°N, 142.27°E

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The named rock units Spongostaurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spongostaurus and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Spongostaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

838 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Spongostaurus, 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

14 references

Each of the 69 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. 2 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

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No picture of Spongostaurus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Spongostaurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOrbiculiformidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haeckel 1882