Leiosphaeridia crassa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LeiosphaeridiaPBDB
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 1165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1800 Mya to 635 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 2050 Mya to 538.8 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 50 occurrences2080–2028 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2028–1975 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1975–1923 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1923–1871 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1871–1818 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1818–1766 Mya — about 2 occurrences1766–1714 Mya — about 3 occurrences1714–1661 Mya — about 3 occurrences1661–1609 Mya — about 3 occurrences1609–1556 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1242–1190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1190–1137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1137–1085 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1085–1032 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1032–980 Mya — about 1 occurrence980–928 Mya — about 2 occurrences928–875 Mya — about 2 occurrences875–823 Mya — about 2 occurrences823–771 Mya — about 2 occurrences771–718 Mya — about 2 occurrences718–666 Mya — about 1 occurrence666–613 Mya — about 5 occurrences613–561 Mya — about 11 occurrences561–509 Mya — about 4 occurrences1800 Mya635 Mya2080 Mya509 Mya

50 occurrences of Leiosphaeridia crassa 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

50 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

16 formations

Alinya — 28.43°S, 132.39°EBlue Hole — 17.09°S, 130.38°ENyborg — 70.56°N, 28.08°ENyborg — 70.55°N, 28.04°EStahpogieddi — 70.55°N, 28.04°EStahpogieddi — 70.57°N, 28.12°EVychegda — 62.00°N, 52.50°EVychegda — 61.47°N, 54.73°EPear Tree Dolostone — 17.25°S, 130.54°EMortensnes — 70.56°N, 28.08°EAmos Knob — 17.25°S, 130.54°ETamengo — 19.02°S, 57.68°WVapol — 61.47°N, 54.73°EAlicia — 36.97°S, 60.27°WGdov — 59.42°N, 27.97°EKotlin — 59.09°N, 27.17°ENelson Head — 67.62°N, 115.73°WMargery — 17.25°S, 130.54°EFrancevillian B — 1.58°S, 13.55°E

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

Found in the same rock

109 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Leiosphaeridia crassa, 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

10 references

Each of the 50 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Leiosphaeridia crassa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 crassa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Leiosphaeridia crassa 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 itLeiosphaeridia through time

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Naumova 1949)