Reticulatosphaera actinocoronata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ReticulatosphaeraPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 15 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 15 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 15 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 15 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 15 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences10–8.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.3–6.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27.3 Mya13.82 Mya67 Mya4 Mya

15 occurrences of Reticulatosphaera actinocoronata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

15 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

4 formations

Monte León — 47.08°S, 66.39°WMonte León — 47.09°S, 66.01°WMonte León — 50.13°S, 68.40°WMonte León — 50.24°S, 68.75°WCalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WPuerto Madryn — 42.57°S, 64.27°WBrejning — 56.87°N, 8.64°E

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The named rock units Reticulatosphaera actinocoronata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Reticulatosphaera actinocoronata and its relatives

Miocene

Where Reticulatosphaera actinocoronata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

492 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Reticulatosphaera actinocoronata, 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

8 references

Each of the 15 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

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

No 3D scan of Reticulatosphaera actinocoronata 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 itReticulatosphaera through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bujak and Matsuoka 1986