Lepingosphaera stauracanthus
No picture of Lepingosphaera stauracanthus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Lepingosphaera stauracanthus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 2.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 254.14 Mya and 251.902 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Lepingosphaera stauracanthus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
1 occurrences- Permian100%
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
1 formation
- Changxing Formation · Lower Yangtze Block Group1
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The named rock units Lepingosphaera stauracanthus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lepingosphaera stauracanthus and its relatives
PermianWhere Lepingosphaera stauracanthus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Copicyntra robustodentata1 site
- Copicyntroides1 site
- Copicyntroides asteriformis1 site
- Entactinia meishanensis1 site
- Entactinosphaera cimelia1 site
- Grandetortura nipponica1 site
- Paracopicyntra ziyunensis1 site
- Radiolaria1 site
- Stigmosphaerostylus1 site
- Stigmosphaerostylus itsukaichiensis1 site
- Tetragregnon1 site
- Triaenosphaera1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Lepingosphaera stauracanthus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Lepingosphaera stauracanthus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Lepingosphaera stauracanthus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Lepingosphaera stauracanthus 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 itFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.