Parentactinosphaera
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeptacladidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Radiolaria
Time the record covers
At least 34 million years on record.
The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 199.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 192.9 Mya.
26 occurrences of Parentactinosphaera on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
26 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Sandilands Formation · Kunga Group23
- Goestling Formation2
- Fields Creek Formation · Aldrich Mountains Group1
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The named rock units Parentactinosphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parentactinosphaera and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Parentactinosphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
182 taxa- Udalia primaeva21 sites
- Pantanellium tanuense20 sites
- Thurstonia minutaglobus20 sites
- Archaeocenosphaera laseekensis19 sites
- Tozerium nascens18 sites
- Udalia plana17 sites
- Charlottea weedensis16 sites
- Praehexasaturnalis tetraradiatus16 sites
- Pseudoeucyrtis fullerensis16 sites
- Spumellaria16 sites
- Droltus hecatensis15 sites
- Danubea howardi14 sites
- Paronaella ravenensis14 sites
- Paronaella skenaensis14 sites
- Amuria impensa13 sites
- Praehexasaturnalis poultoni13 sites
- Relanus reefensis13 sites
- Bipedis elizabethae12 sites
- Empirea hasta12 sites
- Thurstonia gibsoni12 sites
- Pantanellium browni11 sites
- Protokatroma aquila11 sites
- Pantanellium kluense10 sites
- Thurstonia magnaglobus10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Parentactinosphaera, 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
3 references- Biochronology and paleontology of Lower Jurassic (Hettangian and Sinemurian) radiolarians, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia23
- Beiträge zur Erforschung der mesozoischen Radiolarien, Teil III: Die Oberfamilien Actinommacea Haeckel 1862 emend., Artiscacea Haeckel 1882, Multiarcusellacea nov. der Spumellaria und triassische Nassellaria [Contributions to the Mesozoic Radiolaria, part III: Superfamilies Actinommacea Haeckel 1862 emend., Artiscacea Haeckel 1882, Multiarcusellacea nov. of Spumellaria and Triassic Nassellaria]2
- Studies of Radiolaria from the Fields Creek Formation, east-central Oregon, USA1
Each of the 26 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 Parentactinosphaera was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Parentactinosphaera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parentactinosphaera 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 itHeptacladidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kozur and Mostler 1979