Archaesphaera

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParathuramminidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 399.5 Mya to 323.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 25 of 28 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 3 of 28 occurrencesCarboniferous401–398 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences396–393 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences393–390 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences388–385 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences383–380 Mya — about 3 occurrences380–377 Mya — about 3 occurrences377–375 Mya — about 3 occurrences375–372 Mya — about 3 occurrences372–369 Mya — about 6 occurrences369–367 Mya — about 2 occurrences367–364 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences364–361 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences361–359 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences359–356 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences354–351 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences351–348 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences348–346 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences346–343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–332 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences332–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–327 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences327–325 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences325–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393.47 Mya330.3 Mya401 Mya322 Mya

28 occurrences of Archaesphaera on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

28 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

10 formations

Vilemovice Limestone — 49.23°N, 16.76°EKrtiny Limestone — 49.23°N, 16.76°EMacocha — 49.23°N, 16.76°EBeul — 51.39°N, 7.87°EAkbasayskaya — 39.00°N, 69.00°EKhauzieram — 39.37°N, 67.58°EKonstantin-El — 65.66°N, 59.73°EKhao Loc — 22.97°N, 104.93°EBuzinova — 39.37°N, 67.58°EAïn Khira — 33.72°N, 7.02°W

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The named rock units Archaesphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Archaesphaera and its relatives

Devonian

Where Archaesphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

82 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Archaesphaera, 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

10 references

Each of the 28 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Archaesphaera 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 itParathuramminidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.