Stauronema planum
No picture of Stauronema planum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Stauronema planum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StauronemaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lychniscosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Stauronema planum 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Stauronema planum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Stauronema planum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Stauronema planum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
3 taxaThe Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Stauronema planum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Die Schwammfauna der Oberkreide von Neuburg (Donau) [The Upper Cretaceous sponge fauna from Neuburg (Donau)]1
- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)1
Each of the 2 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
Media content0
No picture of Stauronema planum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Stauronema planum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Stauronema planum was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itStauronema through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hinde 1883