Coelosphaeridium

Coelosphaeridium

Johann Kiesow; E. Ohmann lith. · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyclocriniteaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Cyclocriniteae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cyclocriniteae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cyclocriniteae

Time the record covers

At most 15 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 459.3 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 6 of 6 occurrencesOrdovician459–459 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459.8 Mya444.7 Mya

6 occurrences of Coelosphaeridium on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

6 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

6 formations

Anderken — 43.88°N, 75.55°ELianglitag — 39.25°N, 84.67°EFuruberget — 60.80°N, 11.02°EFuruberg — 60.73°N, 10.70°EHaljala Erratics — 52.52°N, 6.08°EBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.00°E

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

Coelosphaeridium and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Coelosphaeridium and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

69 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Coelosphaeridium, 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

6 references

Each of the 6 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 content1

Picture of Coelosphaeridium

Credit
Johann Kiesow; E. Ohmann lith.
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Coelosphaeridium 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roemer 1885