Nucellosphaeridium

No picture of Nucellosphaeridium was found. Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Nucellosphaeridium 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 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 1167 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1600 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 1800 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 11 occurrencesOrdovician — about 0 of 11 occurrencesSilurian — about 3 of 11 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 11 occurrences1827–1780 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1780–1732 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1732–1685 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1685–1637 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1637–1589 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1018–971 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences971–923 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences923–875 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences875–828 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences828–780 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences780–732 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences732–685 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences685–637 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences637–590 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences447–399 Mya — about 3 occurrences1600 Mya432.9 Mya1827 Mya399 Mya

11 occurrences of Nucellosphaeridium 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

11 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

4 formations

Khkoma — 67.04°N, 103.77°ESuket Shale — 24.45°N, 75.45°EStone Knife — 64.80°N, 129.78°WStone Knife — 64.62°N, 128.68°WGanurgarh — 22.75°N, 77.72°E

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The named rock units Nucellosphaeridium 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.

Nucellosphaeridium and its relatives

Silurian

Where Nucellosphaeridium and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

135 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Nucellosphaeridium, 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

5 references

Each of the 11 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 Nucellosphaeridium was found. Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Nucellosphaeridium 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 did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 1966