Valospongia

No picture of Valospongia 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 Valospongia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DierespongioideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Reticulosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Reticulosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Reticulosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 506.5 Mya to 486.85 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 477.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 9 of 10 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 10 occurrencesOrdovician540–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–536 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences536–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–531 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences529–527 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525–523 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences523–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–519 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences519–517 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences517–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–512 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences512–510 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences510–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–506 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 2 occurrences502–499 Mya — about 3 occurrences499–497 Mya — about 2 occurrences497–495 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–487 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences487–484 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences484–482 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506.5 Mya486.85 Mya540 Mya476 Mya

10 occurrences of Valospongia on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

10 occurrences

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

6 formations

Marjum — 39.22°N, 113.32°WMarjum — 39.00°N, 113.00°WMarjum — 39.27°N, 113.28°WEl Mogallón — 28.91°N, 109.28°WMarjum Limestone — 39.22°N, 113.40°WYu'anshan — 24.87°N, 102.83°EFezouata — 30.50°N, 5.85°WWheeler Shale — 39.29°N, 113.31°W

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The named rock units Valospongia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Valospongia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Valospongia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

185 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Valospongia, 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

9 references

Each of the 10 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 content0

No picture of Valospongia 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 Valospongia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Valospongia 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 itDierespongioidea through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rigby 1971