Exilisphaeridium simplex
No picture of Exilisphaeridium simplex was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Exilisphaeridium simplex 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.
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 372.15 Mya and 358.86 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Exilisphaeridium simplex on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
1 occurrences- Devonian100%
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.
Exilisphaeridium simplex and its relatives
DevonianWhere Exilisphaeridium simplex and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Acrisa petala1 site
- Ammonidium hamatum1 site
- Barathrisphaeridium chagrinense1 site
- Barathrisphaeridium pumilispinosum1 site
- Comasphaeridium1 site
- Conradidium firmamentum1 site
- Crassisphaeridium inusitatum1 site
- Cymatiosphaera1 site
- Diaphorochroa ganglia1 site
- Diexallophasis absona1 site
- Diexallophasis cuspidis1 site
- Divietipellis robusta1 site
- Dorsennidium patulum1 site
- Ecmelostoiba asymmetrica1 site
- Ecmelostoiba leptoderma1 site
- Ecthymabrachion camptos1 site
- Elektoriskos apodasmios1 site
- Elektoriskos arcetotricus1 site
- Elektoriskos lasios1 site
- Ephelopalla elongata1 site
- Ephelopalla talea1 site
- Estiastra1 site
- Exochoderma irregulare1 site
- Exochoderma ramibrachium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Exilisphaeridium simplex, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Exilisphaeridium simplex was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Exilisphaeridium simplex 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 Exilisphaeridium simplex 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 itFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.