Tremabolites

Not Tremabolites. This is Tremabolites Zittel, 1877, a relative — both are Aulocystidae.
Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CallicylicinaePBDB
- 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 least 26 million years on record.
The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
12 occurrences of Tremabolites 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
12 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Tremabolites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tremabolites and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Tremabolites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
306 taxa- Coscinopora infundibuliformis5 sites
- Coeloscyphia racemosa4 sites
- Ventriculites radiatus4 sites
- Aphrocallistes alveolites3 sites
- Aphrocallistes cylindrodactylus3 sites
- Astrocladia subramosa3 sites
- Aulaxinia sulcifera3 sites
- Callopegma acaule3 sites
- Chonella tenuis3 sites
- Coeloptychium agaricoides3 sites
- Colossolacis plicata3 sites
- Coscinostoma fragilis3 sites
- Doryderma (Brochodora) roemeri3 sites
- Homalodoriana ficus3 sites
- Homalodoriana plana3 sites
- Jereica oligostoma3 sites
- Jereica polystoma3 sites
- Laocoetis fittoni3 sites
- Laocoetis virgatula3 sites
- Leiochonia cryptoporosa3 sites
- Lepidospongia rugosa3 sites
- Leptophragma micropora3 sites
- Leptophragma murchisoni3 sites
- Napaeana striata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Tremabolites, 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
7 references- Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Crétacé supérieur du nord de la France4
- Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 2 Triaxonia (Hexactinellida) [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 2 Triaxonia (Hexactinellida)]3
- Hexactinellid sponges from the Santonian deposits of the Krakow area (southern Poland)1
- Die Spongien der Ilsenburg-Entwicklung (Oberes Unter-Campan) der Subherzynen Kreidemulde [Sponges of the Ilsenburg Formation (Upper Lower Campanian) of the Subhercynian Cretaceous Basin1
- Hexactinellid faunas in the chalk of England and Ireland1
- Remarques sur les spongiaires siliceux de la craie de la region de Dieppe (Seine-Maritime) [Siliceous sponges from chalk in the Dieppe area (Seine-Maritime)]1
- Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Cretace inferieur1
Each of the 12 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 content1

Picture of Tremabolites Zittel, 1877
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Tremabolites 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.
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What may have been alongside itCallicylicinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zittel 1877