Spongostylus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StylosphaeridaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 98 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 145.06 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 100 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 27 of 100 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 69 of 100 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 100 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 100 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 4 of 100 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 100 occurrences249–245 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences245–242 Mya — about 6 occurrences242–238 Mya — about 14 occurrences238–235 Mya — about 22 occurrences235–231 Mya — about 13 occurrences231–227 Mya — about 8 occurrences227–224 Mya — about 9 occurrences224–220 Mya — about 9 occurrences220–217 Mya — about 9 occurrences217–213 Mya — about 4 occurrences213–209 Mya — about 2 occurrences209–206 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences206–202 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences155–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–145 Mya — about 2 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences243.43 Mya145.06 Mya249 Mya141 Mya

100 occurrences of Spongostylus on record, most of them in the Late 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

100 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

9 formations

Sapadere — 36.42°N, 32.42°EGokdere — 36.58°N, 30.43°EGokdere — 37.59°N, 30.80°EAitutu — 9.49°S, 124.44°EPhasoula — 34.97°N, 32.33°EPhasoula — 34.73°N, 33.15°EAmeghino — 64.47°S, 58.97°WFields Creek — 44.25°N, 119.27°WMuyinhe — 22.65°N, 99.68°EGoestling — 47.80°N, 14.93°EAnchorage — 62.60°S, 61.17°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Spongostylus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spongostylus and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Spongostylus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

641 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 72 sites for Spongostylus, 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

22 references

Each of the 100 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. 10 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Spongostylus 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itStylosphaeridae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haeckel 1881