Schizosphaerella punctulata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SchizosphaerellaPBDB
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 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 168.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 165.3 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 130 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 128 of 130 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 130 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic202–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences200–198 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences196–195 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences195–193 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 1 occurrence191–190 Mya — about 1 occurrence190–188 Mya — about 1 occurrence188–187 Mya — about 1 occurrence187–186 Mya — about 1 occurrence186–185 Mya — about 1 occurrence185–183 Mya — about 5 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 12 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 15 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 17 occurrences180–178 Mya — about 18 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 18 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 18 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 16 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences192.9 Mya168.2 Mya202.1 Mya164.6 Mya

130 occurrences of Schizosphaerella punctulata on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

130 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

6 formations

Subbetic Basin — 37.70°N, 3.63°WSubbetic Basin — 38.13°N, 1.47°WSubbetic Basin — 37.60°N, 3.21°WSchnöll — 47.70°N, 13.17°EJurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°EDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°ESchöll — 47.70°N, 13.17°EDalichai — 37.60°N, 3.21°W

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The named rock units Schizosphaerella punctulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Schizosphaerella punctulata and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Schizosphaerella punctulata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

156 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Schizosphaerella punctulata, 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

4 references

Each of the 130 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 Schizosphaerella punctulata 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 Schizosphaerella punctulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Schizosphaerella punctulata 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 itSchizosphaerella through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deflandre and Dangeard 1938