Helicosphaera

Helicosphaera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HaptophytaPBDB
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 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 8087 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 8087 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 285 of 8087 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 465 of 8087 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2272 of 8087 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1518 of 8087 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3517 of 8087 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 14 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 14 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 29 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 46 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 44 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 30 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 74 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 119 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 94 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 126 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 138 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 314 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 272 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 325 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 366 occurrences12–8.7 Mya — about 416 occurrences8.7–5.8 Mya — about 501 occurrences5.8–2.9 Mya — about 1402 occurrences2.9–0 Mya — about 3752 occurrences83.6 Mya11.7 ka87 Mya0 Mya

8,087 occurrences of Helicosphaera 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

8,087 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

16 formations

Butano — 37.42°N, 122.20°WButano — 37.34°N, 122.21°WButano — 37.27°N, 122.29°WCastle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.84°WBlue Bluff — 33.14°N, 81.76°WPakhna — 34.76°N, 32.92°EEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WMonterey — 33.59°N, 117.71°WBolago Marl — 46.05°N, 11.93°EKuma — 44.74°N, 33.88°ECampo Bola — 52.17°S, 69.04°WShihmen — 23.91°N, 121.05°EWadi Esh-Shallala — 31.57°N, 37.12°EBorbon — 1.00°N, 79.75°WQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°EKellogg — 37.87°N, 121.75°WFormación Coquimbo — 29.08°S, 71.46°WLithothamnion limestone — 45.19°N, 16.37°E

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The named rock units Helicosphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8,057 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Helicosphaera and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Helicosphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

653 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,271 sites for Helicosphaera, 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

147 references

Each of the 8,087 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. 135 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 Helicosphaera

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Helicosphaera 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itHaptophyta through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kamptner 1954