Parentactinosphaera longispinosa
No picture of Parentactinosphaera longispinosa 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 Parentactinosphaera longispinosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParentactinosphaeraPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Radiolaria
Time the record covers
At most 9.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Parentactinosphaera longispinosa on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
2 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
- Fields Creek Formation · Aldrich Mountains Group1
- Goestling Formation1
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The named rock units Parentactinosphaera longispinosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parentactinosphaera longispinosa and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Parentactinosphaera longispinosa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
117 taxa- ? Spongechinus latispinosus n. sp.1 site
- ? Stauracontium trispinosum ladinicum1 site
- Acanthosphaera austriaca1 site
- Acanthosphaera mocki1 site
- Astrocentrus pulcher1 site
- Austrisaturnalis quadriradiatus1 site
- Baloghisphaera kovacsi1 site
- Bulbocyrtium1 site
- Canoptum1 site
- Cantalum1 site
- Capnodoce1 site
- Capnuchosphaera1 site
- Capnuchosphaera deweveri1 site
- Capnuchosphaera goestlingensis1 site
- Capnuchosphaera triassica1 site
- Carinaheliosoma carinata1 site
- Conosphaera transita1 site
- Deflandrecyrtium popofskyi1 site
- Dictyocoryne mocki1 site
- Dreyericyrtium curvatum1 site
- Dumitricasphaera goestlingensis1 site
- Dumitricasphaera latispinosa1 site
- Dumitricasphaera trispinosa1 site
- Entactinosphaera simoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Parentactinosphaera longispinosa, 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
2 references- Studies of Radiolaria from the Fields Creek Formation, east-central Oregon, USA1
- Beiträge zur Erforschung der mesozoischen Radiolarien, Teil III: Die Oberfamilien Actinommacea Haeckel 1862 emend., Artiscacea Haeckel 1882, Multiarcusellacea nov. der Spumellaria und triassische Nassellaria [Contributions to the Mesozoic Radiolaria, part III: Superfamilies Actinommacea Haeckel 1862 emend., Artiscacea Haeckel 1882, Multiarcusellacea nov. of Spumellaria and Triassic Nassellaria]1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Parentactinosphaera longispinosa 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 Parentactinosphaera longispinosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parentactinosphaera longispinosa 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 itParentactinosphaera through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kozur and Mostler 1979