Sepsagon longispinosus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SepsagonPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Radiolaria

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 239.48 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 243.43 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 5 of 19 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 14 of 19 occurrencesLate Triassic244–243 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 1 occurrence242–240 Mya — about 2 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 1 occurrence238–236 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences217–215 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences213–211 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences239.48 Mya227.3 Mya244.2 Mya204.9 Mya

19 occurrences of Sepsagon longispinosus on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

19 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

Rail Cabin Argillite — 44.08°N, 119.43°WPhasoula — 34.97°N, 32.33°EBuchenstein — 45.75°N, 11.33°EBuchenstein — 45.70°N, 11.22°EGoestling — 47.80°N, 14.93°E

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The named rock units Sepsagon longispinosus 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.

Sepsagon longispinosus and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Sepsagon longispinosus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

299 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Sepsagon longispinosus, 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

6 references

Each of the 19 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 Sepsagon longispinosus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sepsagon longispinosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kozur and Mostler 1979)