Staurosphaera amplissima

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StaurosphaeraPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Radiolaria

Time the record covers

At least 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 180.4 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 182.9 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 6 of 12 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 12 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 12 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 12 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous184–182 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences182–180 Mya — about 2 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 1 occurrence179–177 Mya — about 1 occurrence177–175 Mya — about 1 occurrence175–173 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 1 occurrence144–142 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences180.4 Mya137.05 Mya184 Mya132 Mya

12 occurrences of Staurosphaera amplissima 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

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

4 formations

Phantom Creek — 53.42°N, 132.27°WOberalmer Schichten — 47.62°N, 13.25°EOberalmer Schichten — 47.70°N, 13.07°EOberalmer Schichten — 47.73°N, 13.03°ENadan — 23.02°N, 57.11°EAptychus Beds — 47.67°N, 12.90°E

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The named rock units Staurosphaera amplissima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Staurosphaera amplissima and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Staurosphaera amplissima and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

207 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Staurosphaera amplissima, 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

3 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

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No picture of Staurosphaera amplissima 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 Staurosphaera amplissima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Staurosphaera amplissima 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 itStaurosphaera through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Foreman 1973