Stachyspongia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AulosominaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lithistida
Time the record covers
At least 65 million years on record.
The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 41.03 Mya.
10 occurrences of Stachyspongia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
10 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- "Scaphiten-Pläner" Formation1
- "Cuvieri-Pläner" Formation1
- "Siphonia Marl" Formation1
- Ilsenburg Formation1
- Chiampo Formation1
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The named rock units Stachyspongia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Stachyspongia and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Stachyspongia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
317 taxa- Verruculina tenuis6 sites
- Pachinion scriptum5 sites
- Astrocladia subramosa4 sites
- Scytalia terebrata4 sites
- Seliscothon4 sites
- Seliscothon mantelli4 sites
- Ventriculites radiatus4 sites
- Verruculina seriatopora4 sites
- Chonella tenuis3 sites
- Craterella auricula3 sites
- Craticularia roemeri3 sites
- Cytoracia turbinata3 sites
- Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri3 sites
- Jereica polystoma3 sites
- Leiochonia cryptoporosa3 sites
- Ozotrachelus conicus3 sites
- Pachycothon giganteum3 sites
- Pachyselis auriformis3 sites
- Phymatella bulbosa3 sites
- Phymatella intumescens3 sites
- Siphonia3 sites
- Amphithelion cupula2 sites
- Aulaxinia sulcifera2 sites
- Aulaxinia ventricosa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Stachyspongia, 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
6 references- Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia und Silicea incert. sedis [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia and Silicea incert. sedis]5
- A highly diverse siliceous sponge fauna (Porifera: Hexactinellida, Demospongiae) from the Eocene of north-eastern Italy: systematics and palaeoecology1
- Die Spongien der Ilsenburg-Entwicklung (Oberes Unter-Campan) der Subherzynen Kreidemulde [Sponges of the Ilsenburg Formation (Upper Lower Campanian) of the Subhercynian Cretaceous Basin1
- Siliceous sponges from the Upper Cretaceous of Poland, part II: Monaxonia and Triaxonia1
- Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Cretace inferieur1
- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)1
Each of the 10 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. 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 Stachyspongia 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 Stachyspongia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Stachyspongia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAulosominae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zittel 1878