Helicosphaera intermedia

No picture of Helicosphaera intermedia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Helicosphaera intermedia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 4 of 195 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 195 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 148 of 195 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 195 occurrencesPleistocene — about 25 of 195 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 9 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 9 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 8 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 14 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 17 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 17 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 17 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 18 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 17 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 18 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 9 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 18 occurrences41.03 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

195 occurrences of Helicosphaera intermedia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

195 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.

Helicosphaera intermedia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Helicosphaera intermedia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

230 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 195 sites for Helicosphaera intermedia, 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

28 references

Each of the 195 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. 16 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 content0

No picture of Helicosphaera intermedia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Helicosphaera intermedia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Helicosphaera intermedia 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 itHelicosphaera through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Martini 1965)