Stellispongiella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StellispongiellinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Agelasida

Time the record covers

At least 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Permian — about 120 of 128 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 128 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 128 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 8 of 128 occurrencesLate Triassic268–266 Mya — about 7 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 22 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 48 occurrences262–260 Mya — about 43 occurrences228–226 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences224–221 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences219–217 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences217–215 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences213–211 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences207–204 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences264.28 Mya227.3 Mya268 Mya204 Mya

128 occurrences of Stellispongiella on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

128 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

10 formations

Saikra Biohermal Complex — 33.43°N, 10.28°ESaikra Biohermal Complex — 33.45°N, 10.30°ESaikra Biohermal Complex — 33.41°N, 10.23°EMiddle Shaly Facies — 33.38°N, 10.22°EDjebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex — 33.37°N, 10.18°EChambara — 10.85°S, 76.17°WChambara — 11.31°S, 75.97°WDjebel Tebaga — 33.41°N, 10.17°EOum el Afia Shale — 33.42°N, 10.18°EOum el Afia Shale (?) — 33.42°N, 10.25°ECapitan Limestone — 32.29°N, 104.34°WMaokou — 24.88°N, 105.18°ECapitan — 32.12°N, 104.45°W

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The named rock units Stellispongiella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stellispongiella and its relatives

Permian

Where Stellispongiella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

226 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 72 sites for Stellispongiella, 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

5 references

Each of the 128 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 Stellispongiella 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 Stellispongiella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Stellispongiella 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 itStellispongiellinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wu 1991