Helicosphaera carteri

Helicosphaera carteri

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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 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 4251 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 4251 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 11 of 4251 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 49 of 4251 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1196 of 4251 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 887 of 4251 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2093 of 4251 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 5 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 6 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 14 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 22 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 102 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 110 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 148 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 210 occurrences12–8.7 Mya — about 264 occurrences8.7–5.8 Mya — about 307 occurrences5.8–2.9 Mya — about 819 occurrences2.9–0 Mya — about 2233 occurrences83.6 Mya11.7 ka87 Mya0 Mya

4,251 occurrences of Helicosphaera carteri on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

4,251 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

5 formations

Shihmen — 23.91°N, 121.05°EPakhna — 34.76°N, 32.92°EQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°EMonterey — 33.59°N, 117.71°WFormación Coquimbo — 29.08°S, 71.46°W

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The named rock units Helicosphaera carteri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4,246 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Helicosphaera carteri and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Helicosphaera carteri and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

333 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,874 sites for Helicosphaera carteri, and this reads 240 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

118 references

Each of the 4,251 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. 106 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 content1

Picture of Helicosphaera carteri

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Helicosphaera carteri 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 itHelicosphaera through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wallich 1877)