Sphaeriella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SollasellidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Demospongiae
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Demospongiae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Demospongiae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
Time the record covers
At least 25 million years on record.
The record covers at least 372.15 Mya to 346.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 339.9 Mya.
8 occurrences of Sphaeriella 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
8 occurrences- Devonian88%
- Carboniferous13%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Sphaeriella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sphaeriella and its relatives
DevonianWhere Sphaeriella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Cribrosphaeroides7 sites
- Bisphaera6 sites
- Amphipora moravica5 sites
- Parathurammina5 sites
- Vicinesphaera5 sites
- Archaesphaera4 sites
- Calcisphaera4 sites
- Issinella4 sites
- Palmatolepis3 sites
- Paramphipora3 sites
- Paratikhinella3 sites
- Tikhinella3 sites
- Auroria2 sites
- Baituganella2 sites
- Caligella2 sites
- Conodonta2 sites
- Ozarkodina2 sites
- Palaeoaplysina2 sites
- Palmatodella2 sites
- Palmatolepis minuta minuta2 sites
- Polygnathus2 sites
- Polygnathus nodocostatus2 sites
- Polygnathus semicostatus2 sites
- Polylophodonta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Sphaeriella, 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- A lower Famennian fauna from the top of the reefoid limestones of Mokra (Moravia, Czechoslovakia)7
- Fossil sponges of the Mississippian Fort Payne Chert in northeastern Alabama1
Each of the 8 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 Sphaeriella 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 Sphaeriella, 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 itSollasellidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.