Sporadopyle

Sporadopyle

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EuretidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hexactinosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 125.77 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 3 of 56 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 44 of 56 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 56 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous169–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 4 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 6 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 12 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 6 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 5 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 3 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 3 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 3 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 2 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 2 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165.3 Mya132.6 Mya169 Mya124.9 Mya

56 occurrences of Sporadopyle 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

56 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

Jasna Gora — 50.10°N, 19.63°EJasna Gora — 50.45°N, 19.52°EJasna Gora — 50.42°N, 19.35°EJasna Gora — 50.73°N, 19.13°ECalcaires Lites — 45.78°N, 5.52°ECouches de Birmensdorf — 46.25°N, 5.67°EPatcham — 23.70°N, 69.05°E

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The named rock units Sporadopyle has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sporadopyle and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Sporadopyle and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

291 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Sporadopyle, 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

13 references

Each of the 56 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. 1 further reference is 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 content1

Picture of Sporadopyle

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sporadopyle 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 itEuretidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zittel 1877