Siphonosphaera

Siphonosphaera is a genus of radiolarians. The genus contains bioluminescent species. It is a genus of colonial radiolarians.

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 5 of 21 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesPleistocene — about 16 of 21 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 21 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

21 occurrences of Siphonosphaera 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

21 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.

Siphonosphaera and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Siphonosphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

138 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Siphonosphaera, 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

7 references

Each of the 21 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Siphonosphaera 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.

The description on this site

Licence
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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. Müller 1858