Aberisphaera
No picture of Aberisphaera was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aberisphaera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcervulinidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
12 occurrences of Aberisphaera on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
12 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Aberisphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aberisphaera and its relatives
EoceneWhere Aberisphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Miscellanea12 sites
- Distichoplax biserialis10 sites
- Lockhartia10 sites
- Archaeolithothamnium5 sites
- Corallina5 sites
- Dasycladales5 sites
- Daviesina5 sites
- Discocyclina5 sites
- Ethelia5 sites
- Glomalveolina5 sites
- Glomalveolina primaeva5 sites
- Halimeda5 sites
- Lithothamnion5 sites
- Nummulites5 sites
- Orbitosiphon5 sites
- Planorbulinella5 sites
- Ranikothalia5 sites
- Orbitolites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Aberisphaera, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 12 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Aberisphaera was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aberisphaera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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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What may have been alongside itAcervulinidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wan 1991