Germinosphaera

Searched as Germinosphaera alveolata. The Paleobiology Database treats Germinosphaera as the accepted name.

No picture of Germinosphaera was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Germinosphaera 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 most 200 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1800 Mya and 1600 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

1804–1797 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1797–1790 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1790–1783 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1783–1776 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1776–1769 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1769–1762 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1762–1755 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1755–1749 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1749–1742 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1742–1735 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1735–1728 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1728–1721 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1721–1714 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1714–1707 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1707–1700 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1700–1693 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1693–1686 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1686–1679 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1679–1672 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1672–1665 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1665–1658 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1658–1651 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1651–1645 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1645–1638 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1638–1631 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1631–1624 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1624–1617 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1617–1610 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1610–1603 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1603–1596 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1804 Mya1596 Mya

2 occurrences of Germinosphaera 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

2 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

Chuanlinggou — 40.20°N, 117.50°E

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

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Germinosphaera, 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 reference

Each of the 2 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

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No picture of Germinosphaera was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Germinosphaera 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 Germinosphaera 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 itAcritarcha through time

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mikhailova 1986