Sphaeroidothyris browni
No picture of Sphaeroidothyris browni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Sphaeroidothyris browni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 154.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Sphaeroidothyris browni 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Sphaeroidothyris browni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sphaeroidothyris browni and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Sphaeroidothyris browni and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Daghanirhynchia daghaniensis3 sites
- Eligmus polytypus3 sites
- Arabatia bihinensis2 sites
- Arcomytilus laitmairensis2 sites
- Bihenithyris barringtoni2 sites
- Burmirhynchia cavagnarii2 sites
- Burmirhynchia weiri2 sites
- Daghanirhynchia macfadyeni2 sites
- Eligmus2 sites
- Eligmus weiri2 sites
- Gryphaea costellata2 sites
- Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus2 sites
- Praeexogyra dubiensis2 sites
- Somalirhynchia africana2 sites
- Somalirhynchia tumida2 sites
- Trigonithyris eruduwensis2 sites
- Tubithyris jubaensis2 sites
- Actinostreon gregarea1 site
- Ampullina1 site
- Aporrhais1 site
- Arabatia africana1 site
- Architectonica1 site
- Bihenithyris weiri1 site
- Camptonectes browni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Sphaeroidothyris browni, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Sphaeroidothyris browni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Sphaeroidothyris browni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sphaeroidothyris browni 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 itSphaeroidothyris through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muir-Wood 1935