Batiacasphaera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GonyaulacalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Middle Jurassic — about 4 of 71 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 71 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 14 of 71 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 71 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 71 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 71 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 71 occurrencesMiocene — about 26 of 71 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 71 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 71 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 4 occurrences115–109 Mya — about 5 occurrences109–103 Mya — about 6 occurrences103–97 Mya — about 6 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 4 occurrences86–80 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences80–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–63 Mya — about 4 occurrences63–57 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–17 Mya — about 16 occurrences17–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences11–5.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.7–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences168.2 Mya2.58 Mya172 Mya0 Mya

71 occurrences of Batiacasphaera on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

71 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

8 formations

Bima — 12.08°N, 13.14°EDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°EKerrikerri — 12.08°N, 13.14°EJagüel — 38.84°S, 67.88°WSnow Hill Island — 64.00°S, 57.51°WCalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WCalafate — 50.38°S, 72.20°WSnow Hill — 63.88°S, 57.60°W

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The named rock units Batiacasphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Batiacasphaera and its relatives

Miocene

Where Batiacasphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

603 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Batiacasphaera, 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

15 references

Each of the 71 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 Batiacasphaera 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 Batiacasphaera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Batiacasphaera 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 itGonyaulacales through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Drugg 1970