Sphaerulites foliaceus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SphaerulitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hippuritida
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Sphaerulites foliaceus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
10 occurrencesThese 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.
Sphaerulites foliaceus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Sphaerulites foliaceus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
103 taxa- Astropectinidae2 sites
- Caletaster romani2 sites
- Caprina adversa2 sites
- Ceratostreon flabellatum2 sites
- cf. Protocalianassa sp.2 sites
- Crocodyliformes2 sites
- Cyclothyris compressa2 sites
- Echinogalerus2 sites
- Goniopygus menardi2 sites
- Granocardium productum2 sites
- Haimirichia amonensis2 sites
- Harpagodes nodosus2 sites
- Ichthyosarcolites triangularis2 sites
- Icthyosarcolites2 sites
- Meliceritites2 sites
- Nucleatina biplicata2 sites
- Nucleopygus similis2 sites
- Orbitolina2 sites
- Orbitolina concava2 sites
- Polyconites2 sites
- Poriocidaris2 sites
- Praeradiolites2 sites
- Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi2 sites
- Ptygmatis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Sphaerulites foliaceus, 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
6 references- Upper Cretaceous rudists distribution in the Mediterranean Tethys: comparison between platforms from Spain and South Central Italy3
- Un faciès de type falun dans le Cénomanien basal de Charente-Maritime (France)2
- Les facies a rudistes du Cenomanien de Hateg (Carpathes meridionales, Roumanie)2
- Les Faunes de Rudistes du Crétacé Supérieur Charentais du Chantier de I’Autoroute "L’Aquitaine"1
- Cretace superieur de Provence [Upper Cretaceous of Provence, France]1
- Les formations bioconstruites du Cretace Inferieur d'Estremadura (Portugal) [Bioconstructed formations of the Early Cretaceous of Estremadura (Portugal)]1
Each of the 10 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 Sphaerulites foliaceus 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 Sphaerulites foliaceus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sphaerulites foliaceus 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 itSphaerulites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1819