Entactinosphaera

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 243 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461.1 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 192 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 192 occurrencesDevonian — about 39 of 192 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 6 of 192 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 39 of 192 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 26 of 192 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 21 of 192 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 60 of 192 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 192 occurrences466–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–448 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences385–376 Mya — about 14 occurrences376–367 Mya — about 13 occurrences367–358 Mya — about 12 occurrences358–349 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences349–340 Mya — about 3 occurrences340–331 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences331–322 Mya — about 2 occurrences286–277 Mya — about 1 occurrence277–268 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences268–259 Mya — about 4 occurrences259–250 Mya — about 44 occurrences250–241 Mya — about 36 occurrences241–232 Mya — about 4 occurrences232–223 Mya — about 1 occurrence223–214 Mya — about 2 occurrences214–205 Mya — about 7 occurrences205–196 Mya — about 46 occurrences449.5 Mya205.7 Mya466 Mya196 Mya

192 occurrences of Entactinosphaera on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

192 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

16 formations

Sandilands — 53.91°N, 133.16°WSandilands — 52.76°N, 131.57°WSandilands — 53.03°N, 131.88°WOhio Shale — 41.28°N, 82.60°WOhio Shale — 41.23°N, 82.62°WFang Chert — 19.53°N, 98.96°EOruatemanu — 34.99°S, 173.80°EGogo — 18.43°S, 125.90°EGogo — 18.57°S, 125.95°EMuyinhe — 22.65°N, 99.68°EDalong — 32.07°N, 106.00°EDalong — 25.86°N, 106.03°EQiaoma — 25.07°N, 106.20°ETatsuno — 35.05°N, 134.45°E"Gufeng" — 24.15°N, 109.42°E"Gufeng" — 24.35°N, 109.48°EGoestling — 47.80°N, 14.93°EChangxing — 31.10°N, 119.73°ESemanggol — 6.15°N, 100.48°ESemanggol — 5.53°N, 100.63°ESiksikpuk — 68.13°N, 162.82°WBestamak — 49.00°N, 79.00°EBac Thuy — 21.85°N, 106.74°E

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The named rock units Entactinosphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 54 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Entactinosphaera and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Entactinosphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

526 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 86 sites for Entactinosphaera, 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

33 references

Each of the 192 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. 20 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 Entactinosphaera was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Entactinosphaera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Entactinosphaera 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 itEntactiniidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Foreman 1963