Filisphaeridium

No picture of Filisphaeridium was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Filisphaeridium 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
AcritarchaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Acritarcha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Acritarcha

Time the record covers

At least 206 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 241.464 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 3 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 3 occurrences474–466 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences466–458 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences253–245 Mya — about 2 occurrences245–237 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458.2 Mya251.902 Mya474 Mya237 Mya

3 occurrences of Filisphaeridium on record. 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

3 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

3 formations

Vikinghøgda — 78.00°N, 22.00°EToad/Grayling — 56.23°N, 117.28°WGilwern Volcanic — 52.24°N, 3.38°W

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

Found in the same rock

100 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Filisphaeridium, 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 3 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 Filisphaeridium was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Filisphaeridium 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 Filisphaeridium 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 itAcritarcha through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Staplin et al. 1965