Baltisphaeridium

No picture of Baltisphaeridium was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Baltisphaeridium firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcritarchaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Acritarcha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Acritarcha

Time the record covers

At least 682 million years on record.

The record covers at least 720 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 1000 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Cambrian — about 7 of 70 occurrencesOrdovician — about 6 of 70 occurrencesSilurian — about 11 of 70 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 70 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 70 occurrencesPermian — about 21 of 70 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 2 of 70 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 70 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 70 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 70 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 70 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 70 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 70 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 70 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 70 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 70 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 70 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 70 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 70 occurrences1020–986 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences986–952 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences952–918 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences918–884 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences884–850 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences850–816 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences816–782 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences782–749 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences749–715 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences545–512 Mya — about 6 occurrences512–478 Mya — about 1 occurrence478–444 Mya — about 6 occurrences444–410 Mya — about 11 occurrences410–376 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences308–274 Mya — about 1 occurrence274–241 Mya — about 22 occurrences173–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–105 Mya — about 6 occurrences105–71 Mya — about 11 occurrences71–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–3.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence720 Mya37.71 Mya1020 Mya4 Mya

70 occurrences of Baltisphaeridium on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

70 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

21 formations

Zechstein Limestone — 50.83°N, 20.67°ETalme Yafe — 31.65°N, 34.61°ETokammane — 79.18°N, 17.50°ETokammane — 78.82°N, 17.87°ETokammane — 78.95°N, 18.33°EBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WKhkoma — 67.04°N, 103.77°EKhaastyrka — 67.35°N, 104.04°EKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.33°N, 104.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.34°N, 103.88°ELower Buntsandstein — 50.83°N, 20.67°ECopper Shale — 50.83°N, 20.67°ECodó — 4.52°S, 44.03°WMoyerokan — 67.34°N, 104.10°EDalby — 57.00°N, 17.00°ELower Anhydrate A1d — 50.83°N, 20.67°EBasal Conglomerate — 50.83°N, 20.67°EJauf — 29.78°N, 39.87°EHalf Three Point — 62.23°S, 58.98°WLoreto — 53.13°S, 70.97°WAndrew Lake — 51.96°N, 176.62°WAgidyl — 67.35°N, 104.04°ELangpar — 25.20°N, 91.77°EDeymenskaya, Veselovskaya, Ladushkinskaya — 54.67°N, 21.28°EJagüel — 38.84°S, 67.88°W

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The named rock units Baltisphaeridium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Baltisphaeridium and its relatives

Permian

Where Baltisphaeridium and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

515 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Baltisphaeridium, 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

17 references

Each of the 70 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. 5 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 content0

No picture of Baltisphaeridium was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Baltisphaeridium firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Baltisphaeridium 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 itAcritarcha through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eisenack 1958