Psammosphaera cava
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PsammosphaeraPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Textulariina
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Textulariina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 207 million years on record.
The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
2 occurrences of Psammosphaera cava on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian50%
- Late Triassic50%
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
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The named rock units Psammosphaera cava 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.
Psammosphaera cava and its relatives
DevonianWhere Psammosphaera cava and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
88 taxa- Crinoidea2 sites
- Tolypammina2 sites
- ? Webinelloidea sp.1 site
- Acravicula1 site
- Agathammina austroalpina1 site
- Akrosphaerorthoceras1 site
- Ammobaculites1 site
- Ammodiscus1 site
- Ammodiscus incertus1 site
- Ammolagena1 site
- Ammovertella1 site
- Angulodiscus1 site
- Arkonoceras1 site
- Aulosina oberhauseri1 site
- Austrocolomia1 site
- Bavarosmilia bavarica1 site
- Beecherella1 site
- Berounella1 site
- Bigenerina1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Coronipora1 site
- Dentalina1 site
- Diplotremina1 site
- Distichophyllia norica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Psammosphaera cava, 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- Silurian to Lower Devonian communities of Sardinia1
- Rhät-Foraminiferen aus dem Kuta-Kalk des Gurumugl-Riffes in Zentral-Papua/Neuguinea [Rhaetian foraminifers from the Kuta Limestone of the Gurumugl Reef in central Papua New Guinea]1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Psammosphaera cava
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- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Psammosphaera cava 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPsammosphaera through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moreman 1930