Helicosphaera compacta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HelicosphaeraPBDB
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 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 135 occurrencesEocene — about 46 of 135 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 78 of 135 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 135 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 135 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 135 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 15 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 18 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 25 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 21 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 16 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 15 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences37.71 Mya2.58 Mya57 Mya0 Mya

135 occurrences of Helicosphaera compacta on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

135 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

2 formations

Kuma — 44.74°N, 33.88°ECastle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.84°W

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The named rock units Helicosphaera compacta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 133 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Helicosphaera compacta and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Helicosphaera compacta and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

260 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 135 sites for Helicosphaera compacta, 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

20 references

Each of the 135 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. 8 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 content0

No picture of Helicosphaera compacta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Helicosphaera compacta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Helicosphaera compacta 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 itHelicosphaera through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bramlette and Wilcoxon 1967