Goniosphaeridium

No picture of Goniosphaeridium was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Goniosphaeridium 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 95 million years on record.

The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 438.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 2 of 11 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 5 of 11 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 3 of 11 occurrences639–632 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences632–625 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences625–618 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences618–612 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences612–605 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences605–598 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences598–591 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences591–584 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences584–578 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences578–571 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences571–564 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences564–557 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences557–550 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences550–543 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences543–537 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences537–530 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences530–523 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences523–516 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences516–509 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences509–502 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–482 Mya — about 1 occurrence482–475 Mya — about 2 occurrences475–468 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences468–461 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences448–441 Mya — about 2 occurrences441–434 Mya — about 2 occurrences538.8 Mya443.1 Mya639 Mya434 Mya

11 occurrences of Goniosphaeridium on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

11 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

8 formations

Jupiter — 49.50°N, 63.00°WSanted — 41.00°N, 1.00°WEllis Bay — 49.50°N, 63.00°WGun River — 49.47°N, 63.62°WBorrachon — 41.00°N, 1.00°WDere — 41.00°N, 1.00°WRaiga — 59.40°N, 85.67°ETokammane — 79.18°N, 17.50°E

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The named rock units Goniosphaeridium 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.

Goniosphaeridium and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Goniosphaeridium and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

73 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Goniosphaeridium, 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

5 references

Each of the 11 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. 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 Goniosphaeridium was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Goniosphaeridium 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 Goniosphaeridium 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 OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eisenack 1969