Sphaerites claibornensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SphaeritesPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Sphaerites claibornensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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
- McBean Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Sphaerites claibornensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sphaerites claibornensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Sphaerites claibornensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Conocarpus eocenica2 sites
- Dodonaea viscosoides2 sites
- Ficus claibornensis2 sites
- Arundo pseudogoepperti1 site
- Castanea claibornensis1 site
- Malapoenna1 site
- Mimosites1 site
- Mimosites georgianus1 site
- Pisonia claibornensis1 site
- Pistia claibornensis1 site
- Rhizophora eocenica1 site
- Terminalia1 site
- Terminalia phaeocarpoides1 site
- Thrinax eocenica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sphaerites claibornensis, 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 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Sphaerites claibornensis 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 Sphaerites claibornensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sphaerites claibornensis 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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What may have been alongside itSphaerites through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Berry 1914