Helicopontosphaera bramlettei

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HelicosphaeraPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
Life habit
planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
Environment
oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 90 occurrencesEocene — about 36 of 90 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 38 of 90 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 90 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 90 occurrencesPleistocene — about 14 of 90 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 4 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 4 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 9 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 19 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 10 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 7 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences48.07 Mya129 ka57 Mya0 Mya

90 occurrences of Helicopontosphaera bramlettei on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

90 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.

Helicopontosphaera bramlettei and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Helicopontosphaera bramlettei and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

77 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 90 sites for Helicopontosphaera bramlettei, 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

13 references

Each of the 90 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Helicopontosphaera bramlettei was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Helicopontosphaera bramlettei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Helicopontosphaera bramlettei 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 itHelicosphaera through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Müller 1970)