Campylosphaera

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CoccolithaceaePBDB
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 53 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 774 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 150 occurrencesPaleocene — about 6 of 150 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 139 of 150 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 150 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 150 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 150 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 150 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 13 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 14 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 14 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 16 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 18 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 18 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 18 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 16 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 7 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence56 Mya2.58 Mya67 Mya0 Mya

150 occurrences of Campylosphaera 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

150 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

1 formation

Castle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.84°W

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The named rock units Campylosphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 149 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Campylosphaera and its relatives

Eocene

Where Campylosphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

122 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 150 sites for Campylosphaera, 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 150 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 Campylosphaera 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 Campylosphaera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Campylosphaera was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCoccolithaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kamptner 1963