Glomospira

Glomospira

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmmovertellinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Ammodiscidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ammodiscidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 513 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Cambrian — about 2 of 547 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 547 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 547 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 547 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 103 of 547 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 107 of 547 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 30 of 547 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 39 of 547 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 32 of 547 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 8 of 547 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 547 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 13 of 547 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 46 of 547 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 36 of 547 occurrencesPaleocene — about 9 of 547 occurrencesEocene — about 21 of 547 occurrencesOligocene — about 15 of 547 occurrencesMiocene — about 73 of 547 occurrencesPliocene — about 7 of 547 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 547 occurrences550–531 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences531–513 Mya — about 2 occurrences513–495 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences366–348 Mya — about 2 occurrences348–330 Mya — about 84 occurrences330–311 Mya — about 5 occurrences311–293 Mya — about 14 occurrences293–275 Mya — about 3 occurrences275–256 Mya — about 51 occurrences256–238 Mya — about 118 occurrences238–220 Mya — about 14 occurrences220–202 Mya — about 20 occurrences202–183 Mya — about 7 occurrences183–165 Mya — about 6 occurrences165–147 Mya — about 11 occurrences147–128 Mya — about 13 occurrences128–110 Mya — about 26 occurrences110–92 Mya — about 27 occurrences92–73 Mya — about 6 occurrences73–55 Mya — about 23 occurrences55–37 Mya — about 16 occurrences37–18 Mya — about 32 occurrences18–0 Mya — about 67 occurrences516 Mya2.58 Mya550 Mya0 Mya

547 occurrences of Glomospira on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

547 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

100 formations

Second Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WChangxing — 31.10°N, 119.73°EChangxing — 30.49°N, 107.00°EChangxing — 29.71°N, 113.93°EChangxing — 29.49°N, 106.40°EAnshun — 26.34°N, 106.72°EPolat — 37.98°N, 31.45°EKhachik — 38.94°N, 45.51°EDaye — 26.51°N, 106.87°EDaye — 30.17°N, 109.00°EZewan — 34.09°N, 74.98°ENabeyama — 36.45°N, 139.60°ENabeyama — 36.48°N, 139.56°ESan Cassiano — 46.53°N, 11.42°EWujiaping — 29.71°N, 113.93°EWujiaping — 25.57°N, 106.67°EDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 23.53°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.08°EKaradagtepe — 41.91°N, 33.72°EDachstein — 47.58°N, 14.47°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°EDachstein — 47.63°N, 13.17°EDachstein — 48.00°N, 16.42°EAbu Durba — 28.57°N, 33.30°EGnishik — 38.94°N, 45.51°EHuai Tak — 18.72°N, 99.88°EDalong — 32.31°N, 105.46°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.88°N, 7.28°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.78°N, 7.25°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.91°N, 7.21°ENekuchan — 63.15°N, 139.24°EMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WWerfen — 46.38°N, 11.85°EWerfen — 46.57°N, 11.63°EDiamond Peak — 39.52°N, 115.60°WArpa — 39.60°N, 45.15°EHallstätt — 48.52°N, 20.48°E

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The named rock units Glomospira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 76 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 226 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glomospira and its relatives

Permian

Where Glomospira and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

2,091 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 459 sites for Glomospira, 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

137 references

Each of the 547 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. 125 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Glomospira

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Glomospira 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rzehak 1895