Psophosphaera sp.

No picture of Psophosphaera sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Psophosphaera sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

Time the record covers

At least 138 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Permian — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous267–262 Mya — about 1 occurrence262–257 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–115 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences259.857 Mya121.4 Mya267 Mya110 Mya

3 occurrences of Psophosphaera sp. on record, most of them in the Permian. 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 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

2 formations

Flowerpot — 36.30°N, 98.53°WShahai — 41.81°N, 121.99°E

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

Psophosphaera sp. and its relatives

Permian

Where Psophosphaera sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

28 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Psophosphaera sp., 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

Each of the 3 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 Psophosphaera sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Psophosphaera sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Psophosphaera sp. 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.