Scyphosphaera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PontosphaeraceaePBDB
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 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 11 of 643 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 7 of 643 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 643 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 228 of 643 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 236 of 643 occurrencesPleistocene — about 160 of 643 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 7 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 14 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 18 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 22 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 48 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 79 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 108 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 213 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 110 occurrences59.24 Mya129 ka63 Mya0 Mya

643 occurrences of Scyphosphaera on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

643 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

Kuma — 44.74°N, 33.88°EWadi Esh-Shallala — 31.57°N, 37.12°E

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The named rock units Scyphosphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 639 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scyphosphaera and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Scyphosphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

154 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 587 sites for Scyphosphaera, 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

61 references

Each of the 643 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. 49 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 content0

No picture of Scyphosphaera was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Scyphosphaera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itPontosphaeraceae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lohmann 1902