Crassosphaera

No picture of Crassosphaera was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Crassosphaera 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
PrasinophytaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 5 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesOligocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences209–203 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences203–197 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences197–190 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–64 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences32–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences192.9 Mya27.3 Mya209 Mya19 Mya

5 occurrences of Crassosphaera on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

5 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.

Crassosphaera and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Crassosphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

90 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Crassosphaera, 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 5 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 Crassosphaera was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Crassosphaera 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 Crassosphaera 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 itPrasinophytae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cookson and Manum 1960