Filisphaera

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DinoflagellataPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Dinoflagellata

Time the record covers

At least 1.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 774 ka.

Miocene — about 0 of 45 occurrencesPliocene — about 12 of 45 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 33 of 45 occurrencesPleistocene5.5–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.5–4.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.4–4.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.0–3.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.4–3.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.2–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.2–1.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.0–830 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences830 ka–645 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.6 Mya1.8 Mya5.8 Mya274 ka

45 occurrences of Filisphaera on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

45 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

Oosterhout — 51.70°N, 5.73°E

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The named rock units Filisphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 44 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Filisphaera and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Filisphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

115 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Filisphaera, 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

5 references

Each of the 45 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Filisphaera 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 Filisphaera, 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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What may have been alongside itDinoflagellata through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bujak 1984