Multiplicisphaeridium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DinophyceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 254 million years on record.

The record covers at least 506.5 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 241.464 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 24 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 8 of 24 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 12 of 24 occurrencesDevonian — about 2 of 24 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 24 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 24 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 24 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 24 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 24 occurrences545–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–524 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences524–514 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences514–504 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–442 Mya — about 11 occurrences442–431 Mya — about 8 occurrences431–421 Mya — about 1 occurrence380–370 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences370–359 Mya — about 2 occurrences359–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–246 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences246–236 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences506.5 Mya251.902 Mya545 Mya236 Mya

24 occurrences of Multiplicisphaeridium 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

24 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

7 formations

Ellis Bay — 49.50°N, 63.00°WJupiter — 49.50°N, 63.00°WVaureal — 49.50°N, 63.00°WBecscie — 49.42°N, 62.25°WGun River — 49.47°N, 63.62°WToad/Grayling — 56.23°N, 117.28°WYangada — 67.13°N, 103.77°E

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The named rock units Multiplicisphaeridium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Multiplicisphaeridium and its relatives

Silurian

Where Multiplicisphaeridium and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

180 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Multiplicisphaeridium, 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 24 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 Multiplicisphaeridium 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 Multiplicisphaeridium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Multiplicisphaeridium 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 itDinophyceae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Staplin 1961