Melasmatosphaera

No picture of Melasmatosphaera was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Melasmatosphaera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChroococcaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyanobacteria

Time the record covers

At least 600 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1800 Mya to 1200 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 2050 Mya to 1000 Mya.

2071–2035 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2035–1998 Mya — about 1 occurrence1998–1962 Mya — about 1 occurrence1962–1925 Mya — about 1 occurrence1925–1889 Mya — about 1 occurrence1889–1853 Mya — about 1 occurrence1853–1816 Mya — about 1 occurrence1816–1780 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1234–1197 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1197–1161 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1161–1125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1125–1088 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1088–1052 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1052–1015 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1015–979 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1800 Mya1200 Mya2071 Mya979 Mya

11 occurrences of Melasmatosphaera 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

11 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

4 formations

McLeary — 56.55°N, 79.24°WKasegalik — 56.49°N, 79.51°WVictor Bay — 72.33°N, 79.78°WRocknest — 67.55°N, 113.63°W

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

Found in the same rock

41 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Melasmatosphaera, 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

3 references

Each of the 11 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

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No picture of Melasmatosphaera was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Melasmatosphaera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Melasmatosphaera was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itChroococcaceae through time

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hofmann 1976