Sphaerochitina

No picture of Sphaerochitina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Sphaerochitina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhizopodeaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Silurian — about 13 of 28 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 15 of 28 occurrencesDevonian440–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 1 occurrence428–426 Mya — about 1 occurrence426–424 Mya — about 2 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 4 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 3 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 3 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 3 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 3 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 3 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 1 occurrence410–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences432.9 Mya383.4 Mya440 Mya381 Mya

28 occurrences of Sphaerochitina 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

28 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

12 formations

Garra — 32.63°S, 148.94°EPozary — 49.93°N, 14.18°EPozary — 50.00°N, 14.35°EPozary — 50.03°N, 14.42°EPozary — 49.95°N, 12.93°EKopanina — 50.00°N, 14.35°EKopanina — 50.03°N, 14.42°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 12.93°ELochkow — 49.93°N, 14.18°ELochkow — 49.90°N, 14.02°ENagaoling — 22.39°N, 107.55°ETrout Valley — 46.00°N, 69.00°WHollyford — 52.85°N, 7.92°WMotol — 50.07°N, 14.33°ERobledo — 42.95°N, 0.83°WVelise — 58.52°N, 24.68°EGümüşali — 37.89°N, 36.00°EYangada — 67.13°N, 103.77°E

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

Sphaerochitina and its relatives

Devonian

Where Sphaerochitina and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

178 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Sphaerochitina, 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

10 references

Each of the 28 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 Sphaerochitina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Sphaerochitina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Sphaerochitina 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 itRhizopodea through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.