Thecosphaera

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 182 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 3 of 199 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 10 of 199 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 199 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 199 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 199 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 199 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 199 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 199 occurrencesMiocene — about 9 of 199 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 91 of 199 occurrencesPleistocene — about 77 of 199 occurrences188–182 Mya — about 3 occurrences175–169 Mya — about 8 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–144 Mya — about 1 occurrence144–138 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences25–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–6.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.3–0 Mya — about 178 occurrences182.9 Mya11.7 ka188 Mya0 Mya

199 occurrences of Thecosphaera on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

199 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

Funakawa — 39.73°N, 140.72°E

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The named rock units Thecosphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 198 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thecosphaera and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Thecosphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

358 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 172 sites for Thecosphaera, 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

16 references

Each of the 199 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Thecosphaera 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 Thecosphaera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Thecosphaera 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 itActinommidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haeckel 1881