Spongostephanidium austriacum

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 4.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 243.43 Mya to 233.6 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 3 of 4 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate Triassic244–243 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences235–235 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences235–235 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241.464 Mya237 Mya243.9 Mya233.1 Mya

4 occurrences of Spongostephanidium austriacum 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

4 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

4 formations

Slate 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°E

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

Spongostephanidium austriacum and its relatives

Middle Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

56 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Spongostephanidium austriacum, 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 reference

Each of the 4 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

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

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What may have been alongside itSpongostephanidium through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kozur and Mostler 1996