Radiosphaera
No picture of Radiosphaera was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Radiosphaera firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At least 118 million years on record.
The record covers at least 372.15 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
3 occurrences of Radiosphaera on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Radiosphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Radiosphaera and its relatives
DevonianWhere Radiosphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Asterosphaera1 site
- Dagmarita1 site
- Globivalvulina1 site
- Pachyphloia1 site
- Paradagmaritopsis kobayashii1 site
- Postendothyra1 site
- Pseudotristix1 site
- Ramovsia1 site
- Reichelina1 site
- Retroseptellina decrouezae1 site
- Septoglobivalvulina1 site
- Tetrataxis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Radiosphaera, 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
3 references- The Khuff Formation (Middle East) and time-equivalents in Turkey and South China: biostratigraphy from Capitanian to Changhsingian times (Permian), new foraminiferal taxa, and palaeogeographical implications1
- Stratigraphy and facies of the Middle Paleozoic of parts of southern Tien-Shan in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan1
- Tong-Dzuy et al., 19881
Each of the 3 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 Radiosphaera was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Radiosphaera firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Radiosphaera 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 itFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reitlinger 1957