Pseudostylosphaera gracilis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 239.48 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 15 of 27 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 12 of 27 occurrencesLate Triassic240–239 Mya — about 2 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 3 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 3 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 3 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 3 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 2 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 1 occurrence236–236 Mya — about 1 occurrence236–236 Mya — about 1 occurrence236–235 Mya — about 1 occurrence235–235 Mya — about 1 occurrence235–234 Mya — about 1 occurrence234–234 Mya — about 1 occurrence234–233 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences231–231 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences228–228 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences240 Mya226.8 Mya

27 occurrences of Pseudostylosphaera gracilis on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

27 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

Sapadere — 36.42°N, 32.42°E

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The named rock units Pseudostylosphaera gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudostylosphaera gracilis and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Pseudostylosphaera gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

94 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Pseudostylosphaera gracilis, 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

Each of the 27 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

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No picture of Pseudostylosphaera gracilis 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 Pseudostylosphaera gracilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pseudostylosphaera gracilis 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 itPseudostylosphaera through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kozur and Mock 1981