Virgaspongiella ramosa
No picture of Virgaspongiella ramosa 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 Virgaspongiella ramosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VirgaspongiellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lithistida
Time the record covers
At most 5.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 254.14 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Virgaspongiella ramosa 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Virgaspongiella ramosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Virgaspongiella ramosa and its relatives
PermianWhere Virgaspongiella ramosa and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Apachella capertoni1 site
- Apachella pseudostrigillata1 site
- Apachella turbiniformis1 site
- Ceraunocochlis1 site
- Donaldina1 site
- Donaldospira geminocarinata1 site
- Euphemites fremontensis1 site
- Euphemites luxuriosus1 site
- Glabrocingulum coronatum1 site
- Glabrocingulum texanum1 site
- Hypergonia1 site
- Incrustatospongia superficiala1 site
- Naticopsis marthaae1 site
- Orthonema1 site
- Pseudozygopleura croneisi1 site
- Soleniscidae1 site
- Soleniscus typicus1 site
- Sphenalosia1 site
- Strobeus intercalaris1 site
- Strobeus paludinaeformis1 site
- Strobeus primogenius1 site
- Warthia waageni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Virgaspongiella ramosa, 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 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Virgaspongiella ramosa 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 Virgaspongiella ramosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Virgaspongiella ramosa 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 itVirgaspongiella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rigby and Boyd 2004