Conosphaeridium

No picture of Conosphaeridium was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Conosphaeridium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 4.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 21 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 21 of 21 occurrencesLate Cretaceous107–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 4 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 4 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 4 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 3 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89.8 Mya – 85.7 Mya107 Mya71.5 Mya

21 occurrences of Conosphaeridium on record, most of them in the Late 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

21 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

4 formations

Hidden Lake — 63.87°S, 57.99°WWhisky Bay — 63.86°S, 58.04°WWhisky Bay — 63.83°S, 58.13°WHidden Like — 63.84°S, 57.90°WSanta Marta — 63.88°S, 57.96°W

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

Conosphaeridium and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Conosphaeridium and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

56 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Conosphaeridium, 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

3 references

Each of the 21 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 Conosphaeridium was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Conosphaeridium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Conosphaeridium was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itHystrichosphaeridiaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cookson and Eisenack 1969