Cerebrosphaera

No picture of Cerebrosphaera was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cerebrosphaera firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcritarchaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Acritarcha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Acritarcha

Time the record covers

At least 85 million years on record.

The record covers at least 720 Mya to 635 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 1000 Mya to 538.8 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 17 occurrences1009–993 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences993–977 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences977–961 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences961–945 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences945–929 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences929–913 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences913–897 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences897–881 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences881–865 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences865–849 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences849–833 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences833–817 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences817–801 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences801–785 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences785–769 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences769–753 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences753–737 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences737–721 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences721–705 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences705–689 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences689–673 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences673–657 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences657–641 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences641–626 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences626–610 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences610–594 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences594–578 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences578–562 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences562–546 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences546–530 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences720 Mya635 Mya1009 Mya530 Mya

17 occurrences of Cerebrosphaera on record. 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

17 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

Galeros — 36.14°N, 111.83°WGaleros — 36.15°N, 111.83°WGaleros — 36.16°N, 111.86°WChichkanskaya — 44.05°N, 68.20°EHussar — 27.00°S, 125.00°EKanpa — 27.00°S, 125.00°EGdov — 59.42°N, 27.97°EKotlin — 59.09°N, 27.17°EKwagunt — 36.21°N, 111.84°WUpper Visingsö — 58.02°N, 14.32°E

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The named rock units Cerebrosphaera 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.

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Cerebrosphaera, 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 17 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 Cerebrosphaera was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cerebrosphaera firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Cerebrosphaera 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 itAcritarcha through time

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Butterfield et al. 1994