Umbilicosphaera

Umbilicosphaera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HaptophytaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
Life habit
planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
Environment
oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 2 of 3571 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 98 of 3571 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 12 of 3571 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1311 of 3571 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 636 of 3571 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1500 of 3571 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 5 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 7 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 7 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 7 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 12 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 12 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 12 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 8 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 12 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 10 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 6 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 91 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 93 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 94 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 122 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 190 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 208 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 196 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 207 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 293 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 645 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 1321 occurrences59.24 Mya11.7 ka63 Mya0 Mya

3,571 occurrences of Umbilicosphaera 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

3,571 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

2 formations

Quilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°EKivinje — 10.02°S, 39.68°E

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The named rock units Umbilicosphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3,569 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Umbilicosphaera and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Umbilicosphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

173 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,568 sites for Umbilicosphaera, 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

98 references

Each of the 3,571 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. 86 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 Umbilicosphaera

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

No 3D scan of Umbilicosphaera was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itHaptophyta through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lohmann 1902