Sorosphaera

Sorosphaera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PsammosphaerinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Textulariina
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Textulariina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 169 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 346.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 525.5 Mya to 339.9 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 2 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous529–523 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences523–516 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences516–510 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences349–343 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences343–336 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences516 Mya346.7 Mya529 Mya336 Mya

2 occurrences of Sorosphaera on record, most of them in the Cambrian. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

2 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

2 formations

Edwardsville — 39.00°N, 86.33°WNandoumari — 12.35°N, 12.38°W

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

Sorosphaera and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Sorosphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sorosphaera, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 content1

Picture of Sorosphaera

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Sorosphaera 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 itPsammosphaerinae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brady 1879