Pontosphaera

Pontosphaera

Dr Jeremy R. Young · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PrymnesiophycidaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
Life habit
planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
Environment
oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 3259 occurrencesPaleocene — about 13 of 3259 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 105 of 3259 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 164 of 3259 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 742 of 3259 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 775 of 3259 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1456 of 3259 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 7 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 13 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 13 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 13 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 16 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 17 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 24 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 51 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 20 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 33 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 34 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 39 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 57 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 44 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 78 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 67 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 98 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 120 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 157 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 273 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 758 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 1307 occurrences61.66 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

3,259 occurrences of Pontosphaera on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

3,259 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

Butano — 37.42°N, 122.20°WButano — 37.34°N, 122.21°WButano — 37.27°N, 122.29°WCampo Bola — 52.17°S, 69.04°WCampo Bola — 51.74°S, 69.17°WBrockenhurst Beds — 50.82°N, 1.57°WBlue Bluff — 33.14°N, 81.76°WBlue Clay — 40.47°N, 17.30°EKivinje — 10.02°S, 39.68°EPedro Luro — 39.71°S, 61.04°W

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The named rock units Pontosphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3,236 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pontosphaera and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pontosphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

550 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,472 sites for Pontosphaera, and this reads 240 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

122 references

Each of the 3,259 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. 110 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Pontosphaera

Source
GBIF
Credit
Dr Jeremy R. Young
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itPrymnesiophycidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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