Spongostaurus australis

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpongostaurusPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 4.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 145.06 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 152.21 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 14 of 14 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149.2 Mya145.06 Mya152.7 Mya142.6 Mya

14 occurrences of Spongostaurus australis on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

14 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

3 formations

Ameghino — 64.47°S, 58.97°WAmeghino — 63.97°S, 58.17°WAnchorage — 62.60°S, 61.17°WRosso ad Aptici — 45.88°N, 8.64°E

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The named rock units Spongostaurus australis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Spongostaurus australis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Spongostaurus australis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

335 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Spongostaurus australis, 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

3 references

Each of the 14 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Spongostaurus australis 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 itSpongostaurus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kiessling 1999