Cymatiosphaeroides
No picture of Cymatiosphaeroides was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cymatiosphaeroides 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 85 million years on record.
The record covers at least 720 Mya to 635 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 1000 Mya to 538.8 Mya.
3 occurrences of Cymatiosphaeroides 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
3 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
- Ganurgarh Formation · Bhander Group1
- Vychegda Formation · Ust-Pinega Group1
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The named rock units Cymatiosphaeroides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Siphonophycus2 sites
- Archeoxybaphon1 site
- Arctacellularia sp.1 site
- Chilodictyon myriocanthum1 site
- Chuaria circularis1 site
- Eomycetopsis rugosa1 site
- Eophycomyces herkoides1 site
- Fusilabellum brevistriatum1 site
- Gloeocapsamorpha karauliensis1 site
- Granomarginata prima1 site
- Konderia elliptica1 site
- Leiosphaeridia1 site
- Leiosphaeridia crassa1 site
- Leiosphaeridia jacutica1 site
- Leiosphaeridia kanshiensis1 site
- Leiosphaeridia tenuissima1 site
- Myxococcoides cantabrigiensis1 site
- Nucellosphaeridium triangulatum1 site
- Orygmatosphaeridium vulgarum1 site
- Palaeoanacystis verrucosus1 site
- Paleohexadictyon1 site
- Polytrichoides lineatus1 site
- Protosphaeridium1 site
- Siphonophycus robustum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cymatiosphaeroides, 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
3 references- The Early Vendian Microfossils First Found in the Russian Plate: Taxonomic Composition and Biostratigraphic Significance1
- Organic-walled microfossils from the Ganurgarh Shale Formation (Bhander Group, Vindhyan Supergroup), Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh, India1
- Organic-walled microfossils from earliest Cambrian or latest Proterozoic Tindir Group rocks, northwest Canada1
Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cymatiosphaeroides was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cymatiosphaeroides 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 Cymatiosphaeroides 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.
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What may have been alongside itAcritarcha through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Knoll 1984