Tremacystia anastomans

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
- TremacystiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Calcinea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Calcinea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Calcinea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Calcarea
Time the record covers
At most 78 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Tremacystia anastomans on record, most of them in the Early 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Tremacystia anastomans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tremacystia anastomans and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Tremacystia anastomans and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Raphidonema macropora2 sites
- Raphidonema porcatum2 sites
- Tremacystia clavata2 sites
- Tremacystia irregularis2 sites
- Barroisia1 site
- Cellulipora1 site
- Ceriocava1 site
- Cheloniceras1 site
- Colombiceras caucasicum1 site
- Corynella foraminosa1 site
- Cyclothyris1 site
- Echinocava1 site
- Elasmocoelia farringdonensis1 site
- Elasmocoelia mantelli1 site
- Elasmostoma normanianum1 site
- Epicyprina1 site
- Meliceritites1 site
- Mesenteripora1 site
- Mesohibolites1 site
- Multigalea1 site
- Oculospongia dilatata1 site
- Peronella gillieroni1 site
- Peronella prolifera1 site
- Peronella ramosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Tremacystia anastomans, 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- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)2
- Les grès verts helvétiques (Aptien moyen-Albien supérieur) de Haute-Savoie, Valais et Vaud (Alpes occidentales franco-suisses)1
- Les spongiaires de l'Aptien superieur de Haute-Savoie (Zone Delphino-Helvetique, Alpes Occidentales Francaises) [Upper Aptian sponges from Haute-Savoie]1
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. 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 Tremacystia anastomans
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTremacystia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mantell 1848)