Sphaeronites

Sphaeronites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SphaeronitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Blastozoa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Blastozoa
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Blastozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 448.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 58 of 58 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 58 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 4 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 7 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 7 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 7 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 4 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 1 occurrence462–461 Mya — about 1 occurrence461–460 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 3 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 6 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468 Mya448.8 Mya477.8 Mya442.4 Mya

58 occurrences of Sphaeronites on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

58 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

25 formations

Asaphus Limestone — 58.60°N, 13.41°EAsaphus Limestone — 58.61°N, 13.46°EAsaphus Limestone — 58.53°N, 13.35°EAsaphus Limestone — 58.38°N, 14.70°EAsaphus Limestone — 57.25°N, 17.06°EAsaphus Limestone — 56.68°N, 16.68°EAsaphus Limestone — 56.55°N, 16.43°EAsaphus Limestone — 56.40°N, 16.43°EAsaphus Limestone — 56.42°N, 13.20°EAsaphus Limestone — 58.55°N, 15.37°EAsaphus Limestone — 58.50°N, 13.74°EHolen — 58.62°N, 13.37°EHolen — 56.35°N, 16.42°EDalby — 57.00°N, 17.00°EDalby — 58.00°N, 14.00°EDalby — 57.24°N, 17.07°ESholeshook — 51.81°N, 4.96°WSholeshook — 51.80°N, 4.53°WBoda Limestone — 60.07°N, 15.18°EBoda Limestone — 61.05°N, 15.20°ERhiwlas — 52.91°N, 3.59°WRhiwlas — 53.17°N, 4.13°WLenshuigou — 23.00°N, 104.00°EKandle — 59.42°N, 24.75°EFrognerkilen — 59.62°N, 10.58°EFrognerkilen — 59.87°N, 10.56°EShihtien — 24.77°N, 99.15°ELengshuigou — 23.00°N, 104.00°EYinshan — 41.00°N, 79.00°EVäo — 59.42°N, 24.75°ERaniceps Limestone — 58.53°N, 15.44°ESegerstad — 56.91°N, 16.84°ESegerstad Limestone — 56.45°N, 16.60°EChasmops Limestone — 59.86°N, 10.56°EDolhir — 52.93°N, 3.18°WSkålberg Limestone — 61.05°N, 15.20°EJonstorp — 61.05°N, 15.20°EKullsberg — 60.92°N, 15.10°EDalby Limestone — 61.02°N, 15.22°EPivorjaiskaja — 55.57°N, 26.65°EKunlein — 22.93°N, 97.30°E

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The named rock units Sphaeronites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphaeronites and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Sphaeronites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

323 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Sphaeronites, 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 58 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

Media content1

Picture of Sphaeronites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sphaeronites 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hisinger 1828