Rhabdosphaera

Rhabdosphaera

Monteiro, F.M., Bach, L.T., Brownlee, C., Bown, P., Rickaby, R.E., Poulton, A.J., Tyrrell, T., Beaufort, L., Dutkiewi… · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhabdosphaeraceaePBDB
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 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 1056 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 1056 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 32 of 1056 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 1056 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 118 of 1056 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 198 of 1056 occurrencesPleistocene — about 689 of 1056 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 6 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 6 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 6 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 8 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 11 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 23 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 37 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 62 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 232 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 627 occurrences37.71 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

1,056 occurrences of Rhabdosphaera on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

1,056 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

Butano — 37.42°N, 122.20°WButano — 37.34°N, 122.21°WButano — 37.27°N, 122.29°WBrockenhurst Beds — 50.82°N, 1.57°WBlue Bluff — 33.14°N, 81.76°WBlue Clay — 40.47°N, 17.30°E

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The named rock units Rhabdosphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1,026 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhabdosphaera and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Rhabdosphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

193 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,021 sites for Rhabdosphaera, and this reads 240 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

84 references

Each of the 1,056 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. 72 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 content1

Picture of Rhabdosphaera

Credit
Monteiro, F.M., Bach, L.T., Brownlee, C., Bown, P., Rickaby, R.E., Poulton, A.J., Tyrrell, T., Beaufort, L., Dutkiewi…
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhabdosphaera 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 itRhabdosphaeraceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haeckel 1894