Amphisphaera

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpumellariaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 243 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 244.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 185 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 185 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 185 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 185 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 185 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 185 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 185 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 185 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 135 of 185 occurrencesEocene — about 37 of 185 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 185 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 185 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 185 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 185 occurrences249–241 Mya — about 2 occurrences241–233 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–66 Mya — about 6 occurrences66–58 Mya — about 129 occurrences58–50 Mya — about 17 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 14 occurrences42–33 Mya — about 12 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.3–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences243.43 Mya129 ka249 Mya0 Mya

185 occurrences of Amphisphaera on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

185 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

3 formations

Mead Hill — 41.92°S, 174.07°EBuchenstein — 45.75°N, 11.33°EXinyuan — 32.99°N, 107.84°E

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The named rock units Amphisphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 111 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amphisphaera and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Amphisphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

268 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 100 sites for Amphisphaera, 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

11 references

Each of the 185 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

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

No 3D scan of Amphisphaera 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 itSpumellaria through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haeckel 1882