Retentactinia parvisphaera

No picture of Retentactinia parvisphaera was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Retentactinia parvisphaera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 2.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 250.8 Mya and 248.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Triassic — about 3 of 3 occurrencesEarly Triassic251–251 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences251.3 Mya248.1 Mya

3 occurrences of Retentactinia parvisphaera on record, most of them in the Early 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

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

1 formation

Bac Thuy — 21.84°N, 106.73°EBac Thuy — 21.85°N, 106.74°E

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

Retentactinia parvisphaera and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Retentactinia parvisphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Retentactinia parvisphaera, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Retentactinia parvisphaera was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Retentactinia parvisphaera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Retentactinia parvisphaera was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itRetentactinia through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Takahashi 2014