Sphenosphaera capax

No picture of Sphenosphaera capax was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Sphenosphaera capax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SphenosphaeraPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Bellerophontidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Bellerophontidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Bellerophontidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida

Time the record covers

At least 3.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 450.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 9 of 9 occurrencesOrdovician458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453.8 Mya450.2 Mya458.7 Mya449 Mya

9 occurrences of Sphenosphaera capax 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

9 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

5 formations

Bellevue — 38.67°N, 83.80°WAshlock — 37.57°N, 84.61°WAshlock — 37.60°N, 84.39°WLeipers — 35.50°N, 86.50°WTate — 37.58°N, 84.61°WDecorah — 39.12°N, 90.97°W

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The named rock units Sphenosphaera capax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Sphenosphaera capax and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Sphenosphaera capax and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

130 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Sphenosphaera capax, 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 9 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

Media content0

No picture of Sphenosphaera capax was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Sphenosphaera capax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sphenosphaera capax 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 itSphenosphaera through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ulrich and Scofield 1897)