Spongurus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SponguridaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 182 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 410 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 14 of 410 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 410 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 410 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 410 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 24 of 410 occurrencesEocene — about 15 of 410 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 410 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 410 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 47 of 410 occurrencesPleistocene — about 270 of 410 occurrences188–182 Mya — about 1 occurrence175–169 Mya — about 10 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 4 occurrences157–150 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences150–144 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–63 Mya — about 21 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 6 occurrences56–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–38 Mya — about 7 occurrences38–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–0 Mya — about 342 occurrences182.9 Mya11.7 ka188 Mya0 Mya

410 occurrences of Spongurus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

410 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

Mead Hill — 41.92°S, 174.07°EAmeghino — 64.47°S, 58.97°WBorbon — 1.00°N, 79.75°W

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The named rock units Spongurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 384 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spongurus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Spongurus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

608 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 317 sites for Spongurus, and this reads 240 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

30 references

Each of the 410 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. 18 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

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

No 3D scan of Spongurus 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 itSponguridae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haeckel 1860