Cribrosphaerella
Searched as Cribrosphaerella circula. The Paleobiology Database treats Cribrosphaerella as the accepted name.
No picture of Cribrosphaerella 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 Cribrosphaerella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AxopodorhabdaceaePBDB
- 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 most 78 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Cribrosphaerella on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Cribrosphaerella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cribrosphaerella and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cribrosphaerella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
300 taxa- Arkhangelskiella cymbiformis46 sites
- Eiffellithus turriseiffelii44 sites
- Kamptnerius magnificus40 sites
- Micula staurophora37 sites
- Ahmuellerella octoradiata35 sites
- Prediscosphaera cretacea34 sites
- Micula concava30 sites
- Prediscosphaera spinosa24 sites
- Eiffellithus gorkae23 sites
- Prediscosphaera stoveri23 sites
- Watznaueria barnesiae23 sites
- Gartnerago obliquum22 sites
- Repagulum parvidentatum22 sites
- Gartnerago segmentatum18 sites
- Placozygus spiralis18 sites
- Rhagodiscus angustus18 sites
- Cretarhabdus conicus17 sites
- Broinsonia signata16 sites
- Chiastozygus litterarius16 sites
- Tranolithus orionatus16 sites
- Watznaueria barnesae16 sites
- Zeugrhabdotus16 sites
- Biscutum constans15 sites
- Eiffellithus15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Cribrosphaerella, 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
2 references- End-Cretaceous calcareous nannoplankton and response to the K/Pg event in the Kawas epicontinental sea. Insights from Cerro Bombero section, Jagüel formation, Neuquén Basin6
- Calcareous nannofossil events in the late cretaceous at Pedro Luro borehole, Colorado basin, Argentina1
Each of the 7 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Cribrosphaerella 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 Cribrosphaerella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cribrosphaerella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAxopodorhabdaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deflandre 1952