Cymatiosphaera

No picture of Cymatiosphaera was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cymatiosphaera firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcritarchaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Acritarcha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Acritarcha

Time the record covers

At least 997 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1000 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 1200 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Cambrian — about 3 of 107 occurrencesOrdovician — about 0 of 107 occurrencesSilurian — about 7 of 107 occurrencesDevonian — about 8 of 107 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 107 occurrencesPermian — about 4 of 107 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 2 of 107 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 107 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 107 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 107 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 107 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 107 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 107 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 107 occurrencesPaleocene — about 6 of 107 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 107 occurrencesOligocene — about 7 of 107 occurrencesMiocene — about 35 of 107 occurrencesPliocene — about 16 of 107 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 107 occurrences1224–1183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1183–1142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1142–1102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1102–1061 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1061–1020 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1020–979 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences979–938 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences938–898 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences898–857 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences857–816 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences816–775 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences775–734 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences734–694 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences694–653 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences653–612 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences612–571 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences571–530 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences530–490 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–408 Mya — about 7 occurrences408–367 Mya — about 3 occurrences367–326 Mya — about 5 occurrences326–286 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences286–245 Mya — about 6 occurrences245–204 Mya — about 1 occurrence204–163 Mya — about 1 occurrence163–122 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–41 Mya — about 11 occurrences41–0 Mya — about 63 occurrences1000 Mya2.58 Mya1224 Mya0 Mya

107 occurrences of Cymatiosphaera on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

107 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

12 formations

Jagüel — 38.84°S, 67.88°WJagüel — 36.21°S, 69.46°WKhkoma — 67.04°N, 103.77°ETokammane — 79.18°N, 17.50°ETokammane — 78.82°N, 17.87°EVikinghøgda — 78.00°N, 22.00°ETal — 30.59°N, 77.68°ESpringill — 52.77°S, 68.70°WPampa Rincón — 52.77°S, 68.70°WSpringhill — 52.77°S, 68.70°WSanta Marta — 63.88°S, 57.96°WMonte León — 47.03°S, 66.80°WVictor Bay — 72.33°N, 79.78°WVossenveld — 51.97°N, 6.78°E

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The named rock units Cymatiosphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 82 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cymatiosphaera and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cymatiosphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

480 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Cymatiosphaera, 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

26 references

Each of the 107 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. 14 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 Cymatiosphaera was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cymatiosphaera firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Cymatiosphaera 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 itAcritarcha through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wetzel 1933