Calcisphaera laevis

No picture of Calcisphaera laevis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Calcisphaera laevis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CalcisphaeraPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 318.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 312.8 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 8 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferous360–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–355 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences352–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences344–342 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences328–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences325–323 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences320–318 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330.3 Mya318.6 Mya359.8 Mya311.9 Mya

8 occurrences of Calcisphaera laevis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

8 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

3 formations

Amsden — 41.81°N, 107.30°WAmsden — 41.83°N, 107.24°WAmsden — 42.87°N, 110.79°WSt. Louis — 41.33°N, 92.17°WMurphy Road — 45.01°N, 64.13°W

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The named rock units Calcisphaera laevis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Calcisphaera laevis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Calcisphaera laevis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

155 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Calcisphaera laevis, 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

4 references

Each of the 8 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 Calcisphaera laevis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Calcisphaera laevis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Williamson 1880