Germinosphaera

No picture of Germinosphaera was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Germinosphaera 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 800 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1800 Mya to 1000 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 2050 Mya to 720 Mya.

2077–2030 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2030–1984 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1984–1938 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1938–1892 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1892–1846 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1846–1800 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1800–1754 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1754–1708 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1708–1662 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1662–1616 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1616–1569 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1016–970 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences970–924 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences924–878 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences878–832 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences832–786 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences786–740 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences740–693 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1800 Mya1000 Mya2077 Mya693 Mya

5 occurrences of Germinosphaera 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

5 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

Blue Hole — 17.09°S, 130.38°EChuanlinggou — 40.20°N, 117.50°EUpper Visingsö — 58.02°N, 14.32°E

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The named rock units Germinosphaera 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

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Germinosphaera, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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 Germinosphaera was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Germinosphaera 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 Germinosphaera 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itAcritarcha through time

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mikhailova 1986