Prediscosphaera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PrediscosphaeraceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
Life habit
planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
Environment
oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 312 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 20 of 312 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 286 of 312 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 312 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 312 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 312 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 312 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 312 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 312 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 6 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 6 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 8 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 46 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 86 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 45 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 12 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 20 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 48 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 23 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121.4 Mya66 Mya146 Mya0 Mya

312 occurrences of Prediscosphaera 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

312 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

9 formations

Jagüel — 38.11°S, 68.39°WJagüel — 39.86°S, 66.62°WJagüel — 39.86°S, 67.62°WJagüel — 39.20°S, 67.38°WPedro Luro — 39.71°S, 61.04°WCampo Bola — 51.74°S, 69.17°WPedro Luro — 39.50°S, 62.68°WBozeş — 45.92°N, 23.55°EKizilagac — 37.36°N, 27.49°EKizilagac — 37.34°N, 27.56°EColorado — 39.50°S, 62.68°WAvezac — 43.67°N, 1.11°WMishash — 31.78°N, 35.24°E

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The named rock units Prediscosphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 246 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prediscosphaera and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Prediscosphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

321 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 186 sites for Prediscosphaera, 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

21 references

Each of the 312 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. 9 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

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

No 3D scan of Prediscosphaera was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itPrediscosphaeraceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rood et al. 1971