Nucellosphaeridium zonatum

No picture of Nucellosphaeridium zonatum was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Nucellosphaeridium zonatum 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.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 600 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1600 Mya to 1000 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 1800 Mya to 720 Mya.

1822–1784 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1784–1747 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1747–1709 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1709–1672 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1672–1634 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1634–1597 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1035–998 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences998–960 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences960–923 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences923–886 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences886–848 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences848–811 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences811–773 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences773–736 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences736–698 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1600 Mya1000 Mya1822 Mya698 Mya

2 occurrences of Nucellosphaeridium zonatum 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

2 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

1 formation

Suket Shale — 24.45°N, 75.45°E

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The named rock units Nucellosphaeridium zonatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

62 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Nucellosphaeridium zonatum, 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

Each of the 2 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 Nucellosphaeridium zonatum was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Nucellosphaeridium zonatum 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 Nucellosphaeridium zonatum 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 itNucellosphaeridium through time

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Maithy 1975