Scissilisphaera regularis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScissilisphaeraPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Cyanobacteria
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
- Environment
- hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Time the record covers
At most 280 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1000 Mya and 720 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Scissilisphaera regularis on record. 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
1 formation
- Ryssö Formation · Roaldtoppen Group3
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The named rock units Scissilisphaera regularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Myxococcoides2 sites
- Chuaria circularis1 site
- Coniunctiophycus1 site
- Glenobotrydion aenigmatis1 site
- Kildinella hyperboreica1 site
- Kildinella sinica1 site
- Lanulatisphaera laufeldii1 site
- Phanerosphaerops capitaneus1 site
- Pterospermopsimorpha1 site
- Siphonophycus robustum1 site
- Stictosphaeridium1 site
- Trachyhystrichosphaera vidalii1 site
- Trachysphaeridium1 site
- Trachysphaeridium levis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Scissilisphaera regularis, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Scissilisphaera regularis 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 Scissilisphaera regularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scissilisphaera regularis 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 itScissilisphaera through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Knoll and Calder 1983