Sphaeronitida

No picture of Sphaeronitida 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 Sphaeronitida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 279 occurrencesOrdovician — about 199 of 279 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 70 of 279 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 10 of 279 occurrencesDevonian488–485 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences485–482 Mya — about 2 occurrences482–478 Mya — about 2 occurrences478–475 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences475–471 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences471–468 Mya — about 9 occurrences468–464 Mya — about 30 occurrences464–461 Mya — about 15 occurrences461–458 Mya — about 39 occurrences458–454 Mya — about 15 occurrences454–451 Mya — about 25 occurrences451–447 Mya — about 33 occurrences447–444 Mya — about 23 occurrences444–441 Mya — about 4 occurrences441–437 Mya — about 14 occurrences437–434 Mya — about 9 occurrences434–430 Mya — about 33 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 9 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 4 occurrences424–420 Mya — about 1 occurrence420–417 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences417–413 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences413–410 Mya — about 3 occurrences410–406 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences406–403 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences403–400 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences400–396 Mya — about 1 occurrence396–393 Mya — about 1 occurrence393–389 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences389–386 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences477.1 Mya393.47 Mya488 Mya386 Mya

279 occurrences of Sphaeronitida 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

279 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

95 formations

Osgood — 39.07°N, 85.25°WOsgood — 38.95°N, 85.33°WOsgood — 38.81°N, 85.65°WOsgood — 38.08°N, 87.00°WOsgood — 38.21°N, 85.33°WOsgood Shale — 39.13°N, 85.30°WOsgood Shale — 39.00°N, 85.00°WAsaphus 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°EBoda Limestone — 61.17°N, 14.71°EBoda Limestone — 61.00°N, 15.13°EBoda Limestone — 61.05°N, 15.20°EBoda Limestone — 60.07°N, 15.18°EZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EZahorany — 50.10°N, 14.44°EZahorany — 50.11°N, 14.50°EZahorany — 49.99°N, 14.15°ENavas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WNavas de Estena — 39.47°N, 4.48°WHolen — 58.62°N, 13.37°EHolen — 56.35°N, 16.42°ERacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.01°N, 88.38°WRacine — 41.85°N, 87.65°WGrimsøya — 59.88°N, 10.54°EGrimsøya — 59.84°N, 10.54°EHusbergøya — 59.88°N, 10.72°EHusbergøya — 68.82°N, 14.67°EHusbergøya — 59.84°N, 10.54°EHusbergøya — 59.87°N, 10.58°EDalby — 57.00°N, 17.00°EDalby — 61.00°N, 15.00°EDalby — 58.00°N, 14.00°EDalby — 57.24°N, 17.07°ELiben — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELiben — 49.72°N, 13.57°ELiben — 49.80°N, 13.63°ELiben — 49.82°N, 13.70°ELower Ktaoua — 30.00°N, 8.50°WLower Ktaoua — 31.23°N, 4.53°WOsgood Limestone — 38.28°N, 85.73°WShihtien — 24.77°N, 99.15°EVinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°EVinice — 50.00°N, 14.15°ELenshuigou — 23.00°N, 104.00°EWaukesha Dolomite — 38.95°N, 85.33°WWaukesha Dolomite — 41.84°N, 87.65°WLashkarak — 36.30°N, 51.02°ELashkarak — 36.21°N, 54.22°EKullsberg — 61.05°N, 15.20°EKullsberg — 60.62°N, 16.45°EKullsberg — 60.97°N, 15.15°EKullsberg — 60.92°N, 15.10°ESolvang — 59.84°N, 10.54°ESolvang — 59.87°N, 10.50°ESolvang — 60.35°N, 10.42°ESolvang — 60.33°N, 10.55°EJoliet Dolomite — 41.64°N, 88.06°WJoliet Dolomite — 41.67°N, 88.00°WCystoid Limestone — 41.15°N, 1.20°WCystoid Limestone — 41.17°N, 1.15°WHuet — 50.53°N, 4.68°EHuet — 50.67°N, 4.13°EHuet — 50.60°N, 4.22°E

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The named rock units Sphaeronitida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 71 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphaeronitida and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Sphaeronitida and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

2,362 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 201 sites for Sphaeronitida, 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

63 references

Each of the 279 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. 51 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 Sphaeronitida 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 Sphaeronitida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sphaeronitida 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. Neumayr 1889