Pseudostylosphaera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HindeosphaeridaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Radiolaria

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 293.52 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 409 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 36 of 409 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 324 of 409 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 48 of 409 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 409 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 409 occurrences296–292 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences292–288 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences288–284 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences284–279 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences279–275 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences275–271 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences271–267 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences267–263 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences263–259 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences259–255 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences255–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–246 Mya — about 42 occurrences246–242 Mya — about 116 occurrences242–238 Mya — about 152 occurrences238–234 Mya — about 78 occurrences234–230 Mya — about 12 occurrences230–226 Mya — about 5 occurrences226–222 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences222–218 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences218–214 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences214–209 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences209–205 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences205–201 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences201–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–193 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–176 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247 Mya227.3 Mya296 Mya172 Mya

409 occurrences of Pseudostylosphaera on record, most of them in the Middle 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

409 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

18 formations

Sapadere — 36.42°N, 32.42°ESemanggol — 6.13°N, 100.48°ESemanggol — 6.10°N, 100.55°ESemanggol — 6.20°N, 100.53°ESemanggol — 5.53°N, 100.63°ELiminangcong — 12.06°N, 120.18°EMuyinhe — 22.65°N, 99.68°EOtuk — 68.29°N, 163.37°WOtuk — 68.37°N, 162.83°WAitutu — 9.49°S, 124.44°EGoulushankecuo — 35.50°N, 86.25°EFields Creek — 44.27°N, 119.27°WXinyuan — 25.62°N, 106.60°EXinyuan — 32.99°N, 107.84°EYingshuiquan — 35.50°N, 86.25°ESlate Unit — 35.50°N, 86.25°EGoestling — 47.80°N, 14.93°EGokdere — 37.59°N, 30.80°ELuolou — 24.36°N, 107.33°EShipao — 24.51°N, 105.10°ESandstone Unit — 35.50°N, 86.25°EZulla — 23.20°N, 56.95°EHarrison Lake — 49.34°N, 121.83°W

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The named rock units Pseudostylosphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 251 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudostylosphaera and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Pseudostylosphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

525 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 184 sites for Pseudostylosphaera, 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

37 references

Each of the 409 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. 25 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Pseudostylosphaera 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 itHindeosphaeridae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kozur and Mostler 1981