Cenosphaera

No picture of Cenosphaera was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cenosphaera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EthmosphaerinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Radiolaria

Time the record covers

At least 251 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 76 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 11 of 76 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 13 of 76 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 76 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 76 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 7 of 76 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 76 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 12 of 76 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 14 of 76 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 76 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 76 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 76 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 76 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 76 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 76 occurrences259–251 Mya — about 1 occurrence251–242 Mya — about 23 occurrences242–233 Mya — about 2 occurrences233–225 Mya — about 2 occurrences225–216 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences216–207 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences207–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–173 Mya — about 3 occurrences173–164 Mya — about 4 occurrences164–156 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences156–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–138 Mya — about 4 occurrences138–130 Mya — about 7 occurrences130–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–95 Mya — about 6 occurrences95–86 Mya — about 5 occurrences86–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–8.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.6–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences251.902 Mya11.7 ka259 Mya0 Mya

76 occurrences of Cenosphaera on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

76 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

8 formations

Fang Chert — 19.53°N, 98.96°EScaglia Bianca — 43.38°N, 12.62°EOpalinuston — 47.95°N, 7.82°EArnager Limestone — 55.05°N, 14.77°EMuyinhe — 22.65°N, 99.68°EJurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°EHochmoos — 47.61°N, 13.48°EKirsanovskaya — 52.55°N, 42.57°E

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The named rock units Cenosphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cenosphaera and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cenosphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

427 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 69 sites for Cenosphaera, 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

24 references

Each of the 76 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. 11 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

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No picture of Cenosphaera was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cenosphaera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEthmosphaerinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1854