Melasmatosphaera media

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 250 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2050 Mya and 1800 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

2055–2046 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2046–2038 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2038–2029 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2029–2020 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2020–2012 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2012–2003 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2003–1994 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1994–1986 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1986–1977 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1977–1968 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1968–1960 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1960–1951 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1951–1942 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1942–1934 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1934–1925 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1925–1916 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1916–1908 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1908–1899 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1899–1890 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1890–1882 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1882–1873 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1873–1864 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1864–1856 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1856–1847 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1847–1838 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1838–1830 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1830–1821 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1821–1812 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1812–1804 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1804–1795 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2055 Mya1795 Mya

5 occurrences of Melasmatosphaera media 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

5 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

2 formations

McLeary — 56.55°N, 79.24°WKasegalik — 56.49°N, 79.51°W

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

Found in the same rock

13 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Melasmatosphaera media, 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

1 reference

Each of the 5 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Melasmatosphaera media 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 media, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Melasmatosphaera media 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.

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What may have been alongside itMelasmatosphaera through time

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