Gorgonisphaeridium

No picture of Gorgonisphaeridium was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Gorgonisphaeridium 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. Wikipedia and 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 411 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.6 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 2 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences466–451 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences451–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449.6 Mya37.71 Mya466 Mya14 Mya

2 occurrences of Gorgonisphaeridium 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

2 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

2 formations

Bromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WLoreto — 53.13°S, 70.97°W

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The named rock units Gorgonisphaeridium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Gorgonisphaeridium and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Gorgonisphaeridium and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Gorgonisphaeridium, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Gorgonisphaeridium was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.

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

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

No 3D scan of Gorgonisphaeridium 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. Staplin et al. 1965