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Tethyidae
Source Data |
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Rank | family (PBDB) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Porifera : Demospongea : Protomonaxonida : Tethyidae | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Opinions (PBDB) |
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Taxon Size (PBDB) | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 13.8 - 11.6 Ma Miocene | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Motility | stationary, attached (based on Demospongea) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Diet | suspension feeder (based on Demospongea) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taphonomy | silica (based on Demospongea) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | F.J.E. Wagner. 1970. Faunas of the Pleistocene Champlain Sea. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Canada 181 |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Tethya genus | listed (PBDB) | 3 | 2.59 Ma Pleistocene | 2.59 Ma Pleistocene |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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1867 | Tethyidae Gray |
2004 | Tethyidae Finks et al. |
2012 | Tethyidae Worheide et al. p. 31 figs. Fig. 1.4 |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!