Lophosphaeridium

No picture of Lophosphaeridium was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Lophosphaeridium 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. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcritarchaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Acritarcha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Acritarcha

Time the record covers

At least 293 million years on record.

The record covers at least 720 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 1000 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Cambrian — about 3 of 27 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 4 of 27 occurrencesSilurian — about 18 of 27 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 27 occurrences1012–992 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences992–972 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences972–952 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences952–931 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences931–911 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences911–891 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences891–871 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences871–851 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences851–831 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences831–811 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences811–791 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences791–771 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences771–751 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences751–731 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences731–711 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences651–631 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences631–611 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences611–591 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences591–571 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences571–551 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences551–531 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences531–511 Mya — about 2 occurrences511–491 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–431 Mya — about 19 occurrences431–411 Mya — about 3 occurrences720 Mya426.7 Mya1012 Mya411 Mya

27 occurrences of Lophosphaeridium on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

27 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

6 formations

Khaastyrka — 67.35°N, 104.04°EKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.33°N, 104.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.34°N, 103.88°EKhkoma — 67.04°N, 103.77°ETokammane — 79.18°N, 17.50°ETokammane — 78.95°N, 18.33°EAgidyl — 67.35°N, 104.04°EYangada — 67.13°N, 103.77°ETamengo — 19.02°S, 57.68°W

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The named rock units Lophosphaeridium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lophosphaeridium and its relatives

Silurian

Where Lophosphaeridium and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

288 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Lophosphaeridium, 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

7 references

Each of the 27 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. 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 Lophosphaeridium was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Lophosphaeridium 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.

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

No 3D scan of Lophosphaeridium 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 itAcritarcha through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Timofeev 1959