Hystrichosphaera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HystrichosphaerideaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Dinoflagellata

Time the record covers

At least 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 10 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 10 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 10 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–121 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–91 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100.5 Mya37.71 Mya146 Mya21 Mya

10 occurrences of Hystrichosphaera 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

10 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

Talme Yafe — 31.65°N, 34.61°ELoreto — 53.13°S, 70.97°W

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The named rock units Hystrichosphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

97 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Hystrichosphaera, 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

3 references

Each of the 10 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Hystrichosphaera 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 Hystrichosphaera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Hystrichosphaera 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 itHystrichosphaeridea through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wetzel 1933