Tremacystia clavata
No picture of Tremacystia clavata 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 Tremacystia clavata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
2 occurrences of Tremacystia clavata 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
2 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.
Tremacystia clavata and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Tremacystia clavata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Raphidonema macropora2 sites
- Raphidonema porcatum2 sites
- Tremacystia anastomans2 sites
- Tremacystia irregularis2 sites
- Corynella foraminosa1 site
- Elasmocoelia farringdonensis1 site
- Elasmocoelia mantelli1 site
- Oculospongia dilatata1 site
- Peronella gillieroni1 site
- Peronella prolifera1 site
- Peronella ramosa1 site
- Raphidonema contortum1 site
- Raphidonema farringdonense1 site
- Raphidonema pustulatum1 site
- Synopella pulvinaria1 site
- Tamarella elliptica1 site
- Tamarella juddi1 site
- Tamarella vesta1 site
- Vectella1 site
- Vectella angusta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tremacystia clavata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 reference- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)2
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Tremacystia clavata 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 Tremacystia clavata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tremacystia clavata 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.
Keep going
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. (Keeping 1883)