Spinoellipsella

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SaturnalinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Radiolaria

Time the record covers

At most 1.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 199.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 4 of 4 occurrencesEarly Jurassic201–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201.9 Mya199 Mya

4 occurrences of Spinoellipsella on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

4 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

1 formation

Kirchstein — 47.67°N, 11.50°E

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The named rock units Spinoellipsella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spinoellipsella and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Spinoellipsella and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

28 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Spinoellipsella, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 Spinoellipsella 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 Spinoellipsella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Spinoellipsella 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 itSaturnalinae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kozur and Mostler 1990