Sphaeroidothyris arabica

Sphaeroidothyris arabica

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
SphaeroidothyrisPBDB
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 400 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 168.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 12 of 12 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168.6 Mya – 168.2 Mya171.4 Mya161 Mya

12 occurrences of Sphaeroidothyris arabica on record, most of them in the Middle 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

12 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

Dhruma — 24.20°N, 46.32°EDhruma — 25.50°N, 45.23°EDhruma — 25.12°N, 45.69°EDhruma — 24.66°N, 46.05°EDhruma — 24.64°N, 46.06°EPolaten — 42.42°N, 22.73°E

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The named rock units Sphaeroidothyris arabica 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.

Sphaeroidothyris arabica and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Sphaeroidothyris arabica and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

36 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Sphaeroidothyris arabica, 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

5 references

Each of the 12 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 Sphaeroidothyris arabica

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

No 3D scan of Sphaeroidothyris arabica 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 itSphaeroidothyris through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1989