Spongostephanidium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EptingiidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Radiolaria

Time the record covers

At least 9.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 233.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 244.4 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 20 of 23 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 3 of 23 occurrencesLate Triassic245–244 Mya — about 1 occurrence244–244 Mya — about 7 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 4 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 1 occurrence241–241 Mya — about 2 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 2 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 1 occurrence237–236 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences235–235 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences243.43 Mya233.6 Mya244.9 Mya226.8 Mya

23 occurrences of Spongostephanidium on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

23 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

7 formations

Fang Chert — 19.53°N, 98.96°EAitutu — 9.49°S, 124.44°ESlate Unit — 35.50°N, 86.25°ESandstone Unit — 35.50°N, 86.25°EYingshuiquan — 35.50°N, 86.25°EGoulushankecuo — 35.50°N, 86.25°EZulla — 22.47°N, 59.10°E

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The named rock units Spongostephanidium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spongostephanidium and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Spongostephanidium and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

153 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Spongostephanidium, 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

5 references

Each of the 23 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Spongostephanidium was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itEptingiidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dumitrica 1978