Thaumastocoelia dolomitica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThaumastocoeliaPBDB
- 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 1.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 239.48 Mya.
4 occurrences of Thaumastocoelia dolomitica on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
4 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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
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The named rock units Thaumastocoelia dolomitica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Thaumastocoelia dolomitica and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Thaumastocoelia dolomitica and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Anisocellula fecunda2 sites
- Baccanella floriformis2 sites
- Celyphia minima2 sites
- Celyphia zoldana2 sites
- Deningeria crassireticulata2 sites
- Follicatena cautica2 sites
- Meandrostia2 sites
- Olangocoelia otti2 sites
- Plexoramea2 sites
- Retiophyllia2 sites
- <Problematicum>1 site
- <Worms>1 site
- Anisothalamia minima1 site
- Bacinella1 site
- Brandneria dolomitica1 site
- Bullopora1 site
- Cassianastraea1 site
- Cephalopoda1 site
- Codiaceae1 site
- Colospongia1 site
- Deningeria1 site
- Deningeria tenuireticulata1 site
- Diplopora1 site
- Diplopora annulatissima1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Thaumastocoelia dolomitica, 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
3 references- Sponges from the Middle Triassic reef limestone of the Aggtelek Karst (NE Hungary)2
- The reefal margin and slope of a Middle Triassic carbonate platform: the Latemar (Dolomites, Italy)1
- Anisian (Middle Triassic) buildups of the northern Dolomites (Italy): The recovery of reef communities after the Permian/Triassic crisis1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Thaumastocoelia dolomitica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Thaumastocoelia dolomitica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Thaumastocoelia dolomitica 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 itThaumastocoelia through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Senowbari-Daryan et al. 1993