Cryptostephanidium longispinosum

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 243.43 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 241.464 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 25 of 28 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 28 occurrencesMiddle Triassic251–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 1 occurrence249–248 Mya — about 5 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 5 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 5 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 5 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 2 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247 Mya243.43 Mya251.3 Mya241 Mya

28 occurrences of Cryptostephanidium longispinosum on record. 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

28 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

3 formations

Fang Chert — 19.53°N, 98.96°EOgmata — 36.07°N, 138.98°EXinyuan — 32.99°N, 107.84°E

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The named rock units Cryptostephanidium longispinosum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

114 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Cryptostephanidium longispinosum, 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

10 references

Each of the 28 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. 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 Cryptostephanidium longispinosum 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 Cryptostephanidium longispinosum, 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sashida 1991)