Subtilisphaera perlucida

Subtilisphaera perlucida

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 17 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 14 of 17 occurrencesLate Cretaceous126–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences121.4 Mya100.5 Mya126.4 Mya93.3 Mya

17 occurrences of Subtilisphaera perlucida on record. 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

17 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

Six Hills — 25.50°N, 29.25°E

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The named rock units Subtilisphaera perlucida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

80 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Subtilisphaera perlucida, 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

3 references

Each of the 17 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 content1

Picture of Subtilisphaera perlucida

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jain and Millepied 1973