Subtilisphaera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PeridiniaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 161 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 107 of 161 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 53 of 161 occurrencesLate Cretaceous156–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 5 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 29 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 29 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 28 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 7 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 12 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 23 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 19 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149.2 Mya85.7 Mya156 Mya71 Mya

161 occurrences of Subtilisphaera on record, most of them in the Early 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

161 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

7 formations

Riachuelo — 10.65°S, 37.04°WApollonian — 4.98°N, 3.02°WMuribeca — 10.65°S, 37.04°WSix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.25°EWeald Clay — 51.15°N, 0.32°WSewa — 32.45°N, 91.75°ESanta Marta — 63.88°S, 57.96°W

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The named rock units Subtilisphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 46 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Subtilisphaera and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Subtilisphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

125 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Subtilisphaera, 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

8 references

Each of the 161 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 Subtilisphaera 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 Subtilisphaera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Subtilisphaera was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPeridiniaceae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jain and Millepied 1971