Colomisphaera

No picture of Colomisphaera 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 Colomisphaera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CiliophoraPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 4 of 10 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 10 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous159–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–152 Mya — about 1 occurrence152–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152.21 Mya132.6 Mya158.6 Mya120.7 Mya

10 occurrences of Colomisphaera on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

10 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

1 formation

Schrambach — 47.91°N, 14.35°E

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The named rock units Colomisphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Colomisphaera and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Colomisphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

54 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Colomisphaera, 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 10 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

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No picture of Colomisphaera 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 Colomisphaera, 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. Nowak 1968