Thoracosphaera

Thoracosphaera

Hannes Grobe/AWI · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 71 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 773 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 461 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 461 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 461 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 12 of 461 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 461 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 461 occurrencesMiocene — about 152 of 461 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 99 of 461 occurrencesPleistocene — about 186 of 461 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 6 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 6 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 20 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 28 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 42 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 74 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 273 occurrences72.2 Mya773 ka146 Mya0 Mya

461 occurrences of Thoracosphaera on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

461 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

Butano — 37.42°N, 122.20°WButano — 37.34°N, 122.21°WButano — 37.27°N, 122.29°WCampo Bola — 51.74°S, 69.17°WPedro Luro — 39.50°S, 62.68°WJagüel — 39.86°S, 66.62°WJagüel — 39.86°S, 67.62°WPorters Creek — 36.42°N, 89.56°WClayton — 36.42°N, 89.56°WColorado — 39.50°S, 62.68°W

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The named rock units Thoracosphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 447 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thoracosphaera and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Thoracosphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

384 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 459 sites for Thoracosphaera, and this reads 240 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

27 references

Each of the 461 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. 15 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

Media content1

Picture of Thoracosphaera

Credit
Hannes Grobe/AWI
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Thoracosphaera 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 itThoracosphaerales through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kamptner 1927