Sprinkleoglobus spencensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SprinkleoglobusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Edrioasteroidea
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Edrioasteroidea
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Edrioasteroidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Edrioasteroidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 504.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Sprinkleoglobus spencensis on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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- Cambrian100%
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
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The named rock units Sprinkleoglobus spencensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sprinkleoglobus spencensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Sprinkleoglobus spencensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Amecephalus idahoense1 site
- Ctenocystoidea1 site
- Gogia1 site
- Haplophrentis reesei1 site
- Hyolitha1 site
- Zacanthoides idahoensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sprinkleoglobus spencensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Redescription of the Cambrian edrioasteroid Sprinkleoglobus spencensis n. comb. (Wen et al., 2019) from the Spence Shale (Utah, USA)1
- New edrioasteroid (Echinodermata) from the Spence Shale (Cambrian), Idaho, USA: further evidence of attachment in the early evolutionary history of edrioasteroids1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Sprinkleoglobus spencensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Sprinkleoglobus spencensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sprinkleoglobus spencensis 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 itSprinkleoglobus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wen et al. 2019)