Florisphaera

Florisphaera

Daniel Vaulot · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CeratolithaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
Life habit
planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
Environment
oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 1527 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 1527 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 152 of 1527 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 308 of 1527 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1056 of 1527 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 19 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 20 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 21 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 32 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 32 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 56 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 136 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 201 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 347 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 647 occurrences27.3 Mya11.7 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

1,527 occurrences of Florisphaera on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

1,527 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.

Florisphaera and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Florisphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

42 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,511 sites for Florisphaera, and this reads 240 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

56 references

Each of the 1,527 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. 44 further references are not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Florisphaera

Source
GBIF
Credit
Daniel Vaulot
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itCeratolithaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Okada and Honjo 1973