Sphenosphaera eiseni
No picture of Sphenosphaera eiseni 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 Sphenosphaera eiseni, 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 most 5.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 432.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Sphenosphaera eiseni on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
1 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Sphenosphaera eiseni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sphenosphaera eiseni and its relatives
SilurianWhere Sphenosphaera eiseni and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Boiotremus longitudinalis1 site
- Bucania squamosus1 site
- Gotlandiela contraria1 site
- Morphotropis helicina1 site
- Oriostoma angulatum1 site
- Oriostoma globosum1 site
- Poleumita discors1 site
- Prosolarium limata1 site
- Pycnomphalus acutus1 site
- Pycnomphalus obesus1 site
- Spiroraphe shelvensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Sphenosphaera eiseni, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Sphenosphaera eiseni 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 Sphenosphaera eiseni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sphenosphaera eiseni 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 SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lindström 1884)