Sphaera corrugata

Sphaera corrugata

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SphaeraPBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 23 of 32 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 32 occurrencesLate Cretaceous138–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 5 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 3 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 2 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences125.77 Mya100.5 Mya137.9 Mya93 Mya

32 occurrences of Sphaera corrugata on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

32 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

11 formations

Atherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 51.23°N, 0.58°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WRaha — 28.65°N, 33.24°EFahdene — 35.57°N, 8.09°EFerruginous Sands — 50.60°N, 1.32°WHythe — 51.08°N, 1.18°ESandgate — 51.35°N, 2.08°WBarranquín — 8.96°N, 63.55°WLignites de Traiguera — 40.52°N, 0.30°WBranderfleck — 47.67°N, 12.17°ESan Juan Raya — 18.32°N, 97.63°WGalala — 29.67°N, 34.50°E

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The named rock units Sphaera corrugata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphaera corrugata and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Sphaera corrugata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

498 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Sphaera corrugata, 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

17 references

Each of the 32 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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 Sphaera corrugata

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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What may have been alongside itSphaera through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sowerby 1822