Spongostaurus
Searched as Spongostaurus aff. liassica. The Paleobiology Database treats Spongostaurus as the accepted name.
No picture of Spongostaurus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Spongostaurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrbiculiformidaePBDB
Time the record covers
At most 8.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 192.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence 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
1 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
- Aramachay Formation · Pucara Group1
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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.
Spongostaurus and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Spongostaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
838 taxa- Paronaella30 sites
- Stichomitra25 sites
- Orbiculiforma22 sites
- Spongiomma22 sites
- Emiluvia pessagnoi21 sites
- Spongotripus21 sites
- Tethysetta boesii21 sites
- Windalia21 sites
- Praeconocaryomma20 sites
- Emiluvia18 sites
- Napora18 sites
- Acastea diaphorogona17 sites
- Parvicingula17 sites
- Plegmosphaera17 sites
- Alievium15 sites
- Actinomma14 sites
- Homoeoparonaella14 sites
- Parvicingula colemani14 sites
- Syringocapsa14 sites
- Neoparonaella delicata13 sites
- Paronaella solanoensis13 sites
- Praeparvicingula rotunda13 sites
- Droltus12 sites
- Loopus primitivus12 sites
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. 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. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Spongostaurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spongostaurus 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 itOrbiculiformidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haeckel 1882