Prediscosphaera spinosa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PrediscosphaeraPBDB
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 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 60 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 60 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 59 of 60 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 60 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–91 Mya — about 19 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 11 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 7 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–72 Mya — about 3 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 5 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 5 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences93.9 Mya72.2 Mya145 Mya64 Mya

60 occurrences of Prediscosphaera spinosa 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

60 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

3 formations

Jagüel — 39.86°S, 66.62°WJagüel — 39.86°S, 67.62°WJagüel — 39.20°S, 67.38°WJagüel — 38.10°S, 68.38°WCampo Bola — 51.74°S, 69.17°WPedro Luro — 39.71°S, 61.04°W

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The named rock units Prediscosphaera spinosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prediscosphaera spinosa and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

206 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Prediscosphaera spinosa, 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 60 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPrediscosphaera through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bramlette and Martini 1964)