Sphaeroidothyris

Sphaeroidothyris

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
LoboidothyridinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Loboidothyrididae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Loboidothyrididae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Loboidothyrididae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 182 of 271 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 87 of 271 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 271 occurrencesLate Jurassic194–192 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 2 occurrences191–189 Mya — about 2 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 2 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 2 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 2 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 56 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 31 occurrences182–180 Mya — about 19 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 18 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 18 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 18 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 16 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 13 occurrences173–171 Mya — about 13 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 8 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 14 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 15 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 12 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 3 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 3 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 1 occurrence160–159 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184.2 Mya165.3 Mya193.8 Mya148.3 Mya

271 occurrences of Sphaeroidothyris on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

271 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

19 formations

Turmiel — 40.43°N, 1.42°WTurmiel — 40.67°N, 1.20°WCol d'Estivere — 43.02°N, 1.27°ECol d'Estivere — 43.02°N, 1.20°ECol d'Estivere — 42.84°N, 1.53°ECol d'Estivere — 43.01°N, 0.40°ECol d'Estivere — 43.01°N, 1.51°ECol d'Estivere — 43.03°N, 1.36°EPadrinas — 42.14°N, 1.71°EPadrinas — 42.22°N, 1.50°EPadrinas — 42.21°N, 1.55°EPadrinas — 42.25°N, 1.41°EPadrinas — 42.39°N, 0.74°EPadrinas — 42.46°N, 0.63°EPadrinas — 42.39°N, 0.61°EPadrinas — 41.89°N, 0.88°EPadrinas — 42.26°N, 1.62°EPadrinas — 42.20°N, 1.25°EPadrinas — 42.03°N, 0.81°EPadrinas — 42.45°N, 0.50°EPadrinas — 42.05°N, 0.66°ETurmiel Fm — 40.40°N, 1.50°WDhruma — 24.20°N, 46.32°EDhruma — 25.50°N, 45.23°EDhruma — 25.12°N, 45.69°EDhruma — 25.24°N, 45.57°EDhruma — 24.86°N, 46.12°EDhruma — 24.66°N, 46.05°EDhruma — 24.64°N, 46.06°EBarahona Limestone — 41.93°N, 3.15°WBarahona Limestone — 40.67°N, 1.20°WAït Athmane — 32.07°N, 4.38°WKhechem El Kelb — 35.10°N, 9.71°EKhechem El Kelb — 35.22°N, 9.71°EBihen Limestone — 10.25°N, 45.12°EBihen Limestone — 11.02°N, 48.97°EBihen Limestone — 11.07°N, 48.93°EBihen Limestone — 11.02°N, 48.40°EInferior Oolite — 50.80°N, 2.75°WInferior Oolite — 50.70°N, 2.72°WPolaten — 42.42°N, 22.73°EPolaten — 43.63°N, 22.68°ESiniais Limestone — 38.70°N, 21.20°ESiniais Limestone — 39.70°N, 19.80°ESmolegowa — 48.00°N, 19.00°EDhahab — 32.18°N, 35.67°ETuwaiq Mountain — 24.92°N, 45.98°EOolite Blanche — 49.30°N, 0.73°WBihin Limestone — 10.17°N, 45.13°EEtropole — 43.03°N, 23.25°EEs Cosconar Fm — 39.85°N, 2.84°E

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The named rock units Sphaeroidothyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 97 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphaeroidothyris and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Sphaeroidothyris and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

352 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 225 sites for Sphaeroidothyris, 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

31 references

Each of the 271 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. 19 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 Sphaeroidothyris

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

No 3D scan of Sphaeroidothyris was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLoboidothyridinae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Buckman 1917