Palaeospiculum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeospiculidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Radiolaria

Time the record covers

At least 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 504.5 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 508 Mya to 458.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 21 of 24 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 3 of 24 occurrencesOrdovician509–507 Mya — about 1 occurrence507–506 Mya — about 2 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 2 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 1 occurrence499–497 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences497–495 Mya — about 2 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 2 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 2 occurrences492–490 Mya — about 2 occurrences490–488 Mya — about 3 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 3 occurrences487–485 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences504.5 Mya468 Mya509 Mya457 Mya

24 occurrences of Palaeospiculum on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

5 formations

Green Point — 49.68°N, 57.95°WGreen Point — 49.83°N, 57.87°WGreen Point — 49.78°N, 57.84°WBeetle Creek — 21.75°S, 139.98°EShallow Bay — 49.77°N, 57.92°WInca — 19.50°S, 138.93°EValhallfonna — 78.90°N, 18.02°E

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The named rock units Palaeospiculum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Palaeospiculum and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Palaeospiculum and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

100 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Palaeospiculum, 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

4 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. 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 Palaeospiculum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palaeospiculum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Won and Below 1999