Virgola

Virgola

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VirgolinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Agelasida

Time the record covers

At least 5.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Permian — about 62 of 62 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 62 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 5 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 6 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 6 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 6 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 6 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 6 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 6 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 6 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 6 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 6 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences259.857 Mya254.14 Mya264.8 Mya251.4 Mya

62 occurrences of Virgola 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

62 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

4 formations

Capitan Limestone — 32.18°N, 104.35°WCapitan Limestone — 32.29°N, 104.34°WCapitan Limestone — 32.12°N, 104.45°WCapitan — 32.19°N, 104.36°WCapitan — 32.29°N, 104.35°WCapitan — 31.91°N, 104.83°WCapitan — 31.89°N, 104.86°WCapitan — 32.12°N, 104.45°WSkiathos — 38.85°N, 24.50°EChangxing — 30.08°N, 108.86°E

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

Virgola and its relatives

Permian

Where Virgola and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

173 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Virgola, 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

5 references

Each of the 62 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 content2

Picture of Virgola

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itVirgolinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.