Sphaeriola leedae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SphaeriolaPBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 8.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 192.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Sphaeriola leedae on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
2 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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.
Sphaeriola leedae and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Sphaeriola leedae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Kalentera2 sites
- Otapiria marshalli2 sites
- Oxytoma2 sites
- ? Velatia sp.1 site
- Callospiriferina ongleyi1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Entolium fossatum1 site
- Lima1 site
- Pholadomya (Pholadomya)1 site
- Placunopsis1 site
- Pleuromya1 site
- Plicatula1 site
- Pseudolimea1 site
- Pseudolimea fida1 site
- Psiloceras1 site
- Pteria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sphaeriola leedae, 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
2 references- Jurassic Pholadomyidae (Bivalvia) from New Zealand and New Caledonia1
- Divisions and faunas of the Hokonui System (Triassic and Jurassic)1
Each of the 2 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 Sphaeriola leedae 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 Sphaeriola leedae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sphaeriola leedae 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSphaeriola through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marwick 1953