Lanulatisphaera
No picture of Lanulatisphaera was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Lanulatisphaera 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.
Time the record covers
At most 280 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1000 Mya and 720 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
22 occurrences of Lanulatisphaera on record. 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
22 occurrencesThese 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
- Galeros Formation · Chuar Group11
- Kwagunt Formation · Chuar Group5
- Upper Visingsö Formation · Visingsö Group3
- Alinya Formation2
- Ryssö Formation · Roaldtoppen Group1
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The named rock units Lanulatisphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Leiosphaeridia14 sites
- Culcitulisphaera revelata11 sites
- Siphonophycus11 sites
- Microlepidopalla mira8 sites
- Synsphaeridium8 sites
- Cerebrosphaera globosa7 sites
- Squamosphaera colonialica7 sites
- Volleyballia dehlerae6 sites
- Galerosphaera walcottii5 sites
- Kaibabia gemmulella5 sites
- Valeria lophostriata5 sites
- Vidalopalla verrucata4 sites
- Navifusa majensis3 sites
- Palaeastrum dyptocranum3 sites
- Polythrichoides lineatus3 sites
- Rugosoopsis tenuis3 sites
- Caelatimurus foveolatus2 sites
- Karenagare alinyaensis2 sites
- Leiosphaeridia crassa2 sites
- Leiosphaeridia jacutica2 sites
- Leiosphaeridia tenuissima2 sites
- Morgensternia officerensis2 sites
- Pterospermopsimorpha2 sites
- Simia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Lanulatisphaera, 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
4 references- Systematics of organic-walled microfossils from the ca. 780-740 Ma Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona16
- Tonian (Neoproterozoic) Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Organic-Walled Microfossils from the Upper Visingsö Group, Sweden3
- Organic-walled Microfossils of the Mid-Neoproterozoic Alinya Formation, Officer Basin, Australia2
- Microbiotas of the late Precambrian Ryssö Formation, Nordaustlandet, Svalbard1
Each of the 22 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.
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No picture of Lanulatisphaera was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Lanulatisphaera 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 Lanulatisphaera 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Porter and Riedman 2016