Heliosphaeridium

No picture of Heliosphaeridium was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Heliosphaeridium 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 5.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 525.5 Mya to 520 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 515.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesCambrian539–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–538 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences537–536 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences536–535 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences533–532 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences531–530 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences530–530 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences530–529 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences527–526 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences526–525 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525.5 Mya520 Mya539.3 Mya514.8 Mya

4 occurrences of Heliosphaeridium on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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 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

3 formations

Buen — 81.60°N, 16.70°WBuen — 82.79°N, 42.23°WYurtus — 40.52°N, 79.05°EYanjiahe — 30.88°N, 110.83°E

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

Heliosphaeridium and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Heliosphaeridium and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Heliosphaeridium, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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 Heliosphaeridium was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moczydlowska 1991