Cyclusphaera

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AraucariaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 28 of 63 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 12 of 63 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 63 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 21 of 63 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 63 occurrences139–135 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 2 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 2 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 3 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 3 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 4 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 5 occurrences113–109 Mya — about 4 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 3 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–97 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences86–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–78 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 5 occurrences67–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 6 occurrences44–40 Mya — about 6 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 4 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121.4 Mya37.71 Mya139 Mya25 Mya

63 occurrences of Cyclusphaera on record, most of them in the Early 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

63 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

20 formations

Kachaike — 49.06°S, 72.14°WKachaike — 48.82°S, 72.12°WKachaike — 49.00°S, 72.00°WChorrillo — 50.51°S, 72.56°WSan Fernando — 4.90°N, 73.02°WRio Mayer — 49.06°S, 72.14°WRio Mayer — 48.82°S, 72.12°WSpringhill — 52.77°S, 68.70°WLa Paz — 7.33°N, 73.33°WAreniscas de el Limbo — 4.90°N, 73.02°WMirador — 7.70°N, 72.62°WCarbonera — 7.70°N, 72.62°WPiedra Clavada — 49.53°S, 71.48°WPiedra Clavada — 49.60°S, 71.47°WVivian — 7.00°S, 75.00°WHuincul — 36.53°S, 69.65°WHuitrin or Rayoso — 38.38°S, 70.03°WSpringill — 52.77°S, 68.70°WPampa Rincón — 52.77°S, 68.70°WTunal — 25.43°S, 65.30°WWhisky Bay — 63.86°S, 58.05°WLoncoche — 36.53°S, 69.82°WPozo — 7.33°S, 74.95°WCerro Fortaleza — 49.83°S, 72.12°W

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The named rock units Cyclusphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyclusphaera and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Cyclusphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

383 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Cyclusphaera, 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

15 references

Each of the 63 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. 3 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 Cyclusphaera 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 Cyclusphaera, 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 itAraucariaceae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Elsik 1966