Thaumastocoelia irregularis
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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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 259.857 Mya.
6 occurrences of Thaumastocoelia irregularis 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
6 occurrences- Permian100%
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 irregularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Thaumastocoelia irregularis and its relatives
PermianWhere Thaumastocoelia irregularis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Girtyocoelia beedei3 sites
- Sollasia ostiolata3 sites
- Spica spica3 sites
- Amblysiphonella2 sites
- Archaeolithoporella2 sites
- Imbricatocoelia elongata2 sites
- Intrasporeocoelia hubeiensis2 sites
- Laccosiphonella merlai2 sites
- Parauvanella minima2 sites
- Peronidella2 sites
- Alternifenestella kungurensis1 site
- Amblysiphonella bancaoensis1 site
- Amblysiphonella rigbyi1 site
- Amblysiphonella socialis1 site
- Amblysiphonella specialis1 site
- Asserculinia1 site
- Bacinella1 site
- Baghevangia minima1 site
- Bicoelia spinosa1 site
- Celyphia1 site
- Celyphia bacula1 site
- Chinaspongia fani1 site
- Colospongia1 site
- Colospongia benjamini1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Thaumastocoelia irregularis, 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- Late Permian 'Sphinctozoans' from reefal blocks of the Ba'id area, Oman Mountains4
- Sponge assemblage from the Permian reefal limestones of Kuh-e Bagh-e Vang, Shotori Mountains (eastern Iran)1
- New taxa of Sphictozoa from the Permian reefs of southeastern China1
Each of the 6 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 Thaumastocoelia irregularis 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 irregularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Thaumastocoelia irregularis 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 PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weidlich and Senowbari-Daryan 1996