Sphaeronites pomum

Sphaeronites pomum

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 2.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 464.3 Mya to 461.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.1 Mya to 459.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 25 of 25 occurrencesOrdovician469–469 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 2 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 2 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 2 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 2 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 2 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 2 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 2 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 2 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464.3 Mya461.4 Mya469.6 Mya459.2 Mya

25 occurrences of Sphaeronites pomum 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

25 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

7 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°EKandle — 59.42°N, 24.75°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°E

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The named rock units Sphaeronites pomum 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.

Sphaeronites pomum and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Sphaeronites pomum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

81 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Sphaeronites pomum, 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

4 references

Each of the 25 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 pomum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Sphaeronites pomum 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. (Volborth 1846)