Leiosphaeridia asperata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeiosphaeridiaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Chlorophyta
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Chlorophyta
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Chlorophyta
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Chlorophyta
Time the record covers
At most 280 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1000 Mya and 720 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Leiosphaeridia asperata 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
5 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Leiosphaeridia asperata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Biocatenoides2 sites
- Gloeodiniopsis lamellosa2 sites
- Hyalocyrillium clardyi2 sites
- Myxococcoides cantabrigiensis2 sites
- Siphonophycus robustum2 sites
- Sphaerophycus parvum2 sites
- Tetraphycus major2 sites
- Archeomyces dimakeloides1 site
- Archeoxybaphon1 site
- Calyptothrix annulata1 site
- Caudiculophycus1 site
- Cephalophytarion grande1 site
- Chilodictyon myriocanthum1 site
- Eosynechococcus1 site
- Fusilabellum brevistriatum1 site
- Glenobotrydion aenigmatis1 site
- Halythrix nodosa1 site
- Heliconema bulbosa1 site
- Microagglomeratus borealis1 site
- Myxococcoides minor1 site
- Obruchevella1 site
- Oscillatoriopsis majesticum1 site
- Oscillatoriopsis obtusa1 site
- Palaeolyngbya barghoorniana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Leiosphaeridia asperata, 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
2 references- Organic-walled microfossils from earliest Cambrian or latest Proterozoic Tindir Group rocks, northwest Canada3
- Cell wall ultrastructures of the Proterozoic acritarch Leiosphaeridia asperata and their implications for biological affinity2
Each of the 5 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 Leiosphaeridia asperata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Leiosphaeridia asperata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leiosphaeridia asperata was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itLeiosphaeridia through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Naumova 1950)