Leiosphaeridia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChlorococcaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Chlorophyta
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Chlorophyta
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Chlorophyta
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Chlorophyta
Time the record covers
At least 1797 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1800 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 2050 Mya to 11.7 ka.
357 occurrences of Leiosphaeridia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
357 occurrences- Cambrian3%
- Ordovician6%
- Silurian3%
- Devonianunder 1%
- Permian6%
- Early Triassicunder 1%
- Middle Jurassicunder 1%
- Early Cretaceous3%
- Late Cretaceous7%
- Paleocene3%
- Oligoceneunder 1%
- Miocene5%
- Pliocene4%
- Pleistocene3%
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
63 formations
- Alinya Formation38
- Blue Hole Formation · Limbunya Group26
- Galeros Formation · Chuar Group19
- Dakota Formation13
- Vychegda Formation · Ust-Pinega Group13
- Bernburg Formation · Buntsandstein Group11
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The named rock units Leiosphaeridia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 63 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Leiosphaeridia and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Leiosphaeridia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
1,085 taxa- Dinoflagellata48 sites
- Acritarcha45 sites
- <Amorphous organic matter>42 sites
- <Black phytoclasts>42 sites
- <Brown phytoclasts>42 sites
- <Fungal spores>42 sites
- <Other pollen>42 sites
- <Pollen/spores reworked>42 sites
- <Saccate pollen>42 sites
- <Spores>42 sites
- <Sporomorphs>42 sites
- Foraminifera42 sites
- Nothofagus42 sites
- Prasinophytae42 sites
- Cymatiosphaera39 sites
- Synsphaeridium34 sites
- Brigantedinium33 sites
- Lejeunecysta24 sites
- Siphonophycus23 sites
- Cycadopites follicularis21 sites
- Lunatisporites21 sites
- Densoisporites17 sites
- Selenopemphix17 sites
- Lanulatisphaera laufeldii16 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 223 sites for Leiosphaeridia, 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
61 references- Early eukaryotic microfossils of the late Palaeoproterozoic Limbunya Group, Birrindudu Basin, northern Australia39
- Organic-walled Microfossils of the Mid-Neoproterozoic Alinya Formation, Officer Basin, Australia38
- Systematics of organic-walled microfossils from the ca. 780-740 Ma Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona27
- Palynologie des Zechsteins und Unteren Buntsandsteins im Germanischen Becken20
- Life through an Ediacaran glaciation: Shale- and diamictite-hosted organic-walled microfossil assemblages from the late Neoproterozoic of the Tanafjorden area, northern Norway18
- Age, facies, and geometry of the Sandbian/Katian (Upper Ordovician) pelmatozoan-bryozoan-receptaculitid reefs of the Vasalemma Formation, northern Estonia17
- The Early Vendian Microfossils First Found in the Russian Plate: Taxonomic Composition and Biostratigraphic Significance15
- Megaspores and other dispersed plant remains from the Dakota Formation (Cenomanian) of Kansas, U.S.A.13
- Organic-walled microfossils in the Ediacaran of Estonia: Biodiversity on the East European Platform12
- Site U152111
- Site U15229
- Site U15238
Each of the 357 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. 49 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 Leiosphaeridia 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 Leiosphaeridia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leiosphaeridia 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 itChlorococcaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eisenack 1958