Capnuchosphaera mexicana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CapnuchosphaeraPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Capnuchosphaera mexicana on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
8 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
2 formations
- San Hipolito Formation7
- Otuk Formation · Etivluk Group1
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The named rock units Capnuchosphaera mexicana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Capnuchosphaera mexicana and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Capnuchosphaera mexicana and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Capnuchosphaera lenticulata6 sites
- Pseudoheliodiscus viejoensis5 sites
- Plafkerium abbotti4 sites
- Plafkerium hindei4 sites
- Sarla prietoensis4 sites
- Sarla vetusta4 sites
- Pantanellium tozeri3 sites
- Pseudoheliodiscus3 sites
- Pseudoheliodiscus finchi3 sites
- Sarla natividadensis3 sites
- Veghicyclia3 sites
- Pantanellium silberlingi2 sites
- Acanthocircus1 site
- Betraccium1 site
- Capnuchosphaera schenki1 site
- Capnuchosphaera smithorum1 site
- Natraglia luminosa1 site
- Natraglia unica1 site
- Sarla1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Capnuchosphaera mexicana, 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
2 references- Upper Triassic Radiolaria from the San Hipólito Formation, Baja California7
- Conodont and radiolarian data from the De Long Mountains Quadrangle and adjacent areas, northern Alaska1
Each of the 8 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
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No picture of Capnuchosphaera mexicana was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Capnuchosphaera mexicana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Capnuchosphaera mexicana 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 itCapnuchosphaera through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pessagno et al. 1979