Sphaerocodium

No picture of Sphaerocodium was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Sphaerocodium itself, so it was not used. 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 Sphaerocodium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyanobacteriaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyanobacteria

Time the record covers

At least 230 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 9 of 72 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 6 of 72 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 49 of 72 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 72 occurrencesPermian — about 1 of 72 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 72 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 72 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 72 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 72 occurrences477–467 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences467–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–449 Mya — about 5 occurrences449–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–431 Mya — about 3 occurrences431–421 Mya — about 2 occurrences421–412 Mya — about 7 occurrences412–403 Mya — about 4 occurrences403–394 Mya — about 2 occurrences394–385 Mya — about 8 occurrences385–375 Mya — about 18 occurrences375–366 Mya — about 11 occurrences366–357 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences302–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–283 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences237–228 Mya — about 6 occurrences228–219 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences219–210 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences210–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458.2 Mya227.3 Mya477 Mya200 Mya

72 occurrences of Sphaerocodium 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

72 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

40 formations

Badragha — 34.37°N, 68.33°EBadragha — 34.35°N, 68.38°EBadragha — 34.30°N, 68.12°EBadragha — 34.23°N, 68.00°EDewal — 33.75°N, 68.02°EDewal — 33.62°N, 67.90°EDewal — 33.73°N, 68.08°EKoh-e Giru — 34.23°N, 68.00°EKoh-e Giru — 34.33°N, 68.40°EKoh-e Giru — 33.87°N, 67.93°EKoh-e Giru — 33.62°N, 67.90°EMoniello — 43.58°N, 5.97°WStuart Bay — 75.75°N, 98.33°WStuart Bay — 76.08°N, 97.97°WStuart Bay — 76.23°N, 97.98°WLa Vieille — 48.18°N, 64.97°WLa Vieille — 48.13°N, 65.82°WPillara — 17.50°S, 125.00°EAisemont — 50.58°N, 5.65°EAisemont — 50.57°N, 5.33°ENehou — 49.42°N, 1.82°WVilemovice — 49.30°N, 16.75°ESin Ghar — 34.33°N, 68.40°ESin Ghar — 34.32°N, 68.35°ELianglitag — 39.25°N, 84.67°ELianglitag — 38.60°N, 79.55°ERaibl — 46.50°N, 11.62°EWabash — 40.42°N, 85.80°WGuilmette — 37.41°N, 115.38°WTisovec Limestone — 47.63°N, 14.33°ELustin — 50.42°N, 4.87°EYunghsien — 25.35°N, 110.10°EHorn Plateau — 62.17°N, 117.83°WPantokrator limestone — 37.33°N, 23.47°EMacocha — 49.23°N, 16.76°ESimard — 48.48°N, 71.07°WCrown Point — 44.87°N, 73.33°WNisku — 53.00°N, 116.25°W

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The named rock units Sphaerocodium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphaerocodium and its relatives

Devonian

Where Sphaerocodium and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

433 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Sphaerocodium, 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

43 references

Each of the 72 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. 31 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 Sphaerocodium was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Sphaerocodium itself, so it was not used.

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 Sphaerocodium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sphaerocodium 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 itCyanobacteria through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rothpletz 1890