Tanyosphaeridium

Tanyosphaeridium

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 145.06 Mya to 56 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 43 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 17 of 43 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 23 of 43 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 43 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 43 occurrences147–144 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 3 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 1 occurrence138–134 Mya — about 3 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 3 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 1 occurrence128–125 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–101 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–97 Mya — about 1 occurrence97–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 3 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 3 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 4 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 4 occurrences67–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–60 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143.1 Mya66 Mya147 Mya54 Mya

43 occurrences of Tanyosphaeridium on record, most of them in the Late 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

43 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

10 formations

Santa Marta — 64.21°S, 57.18°WLadegardsaen — 82.42°N, 23.17°WTalme Yafe — 31.65°N, 34.61°EAgrio — 38.42°S, 70.00°WRiachuelo — 10.65°S, 37.04°WSobral? — 64.25°S, 56.72°WAtco — 33.00°N, 96.83°WWhisky Bay — 63.86°S, 58.04°WSalamanca — 45.81°S, 69.06°WCalafate — 50.38°S, 72.20°W

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The named rock units Tanyosphaeridium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tanyosphaeridium and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Tanyosphaeridium and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

177 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Tanyosphaeridium, 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

12 references

Each of the 43 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 Tanyosphaeridium

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

No 3D scan of Tanyosphaeridium 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 itGonyaulacales through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Davey and Williams 1966