Stylosphaera

Stylosphaera

Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919); engravings by Adolf Giltsch (1852-1911). · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
StylosphaeridaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 226 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 13.82 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 116 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 2 of 116 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 13 of 116 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 116 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 116 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 116 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 116 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 45 of 116 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 116 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 23 of 116 occurrencesEocene — about 16 of 116 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 116 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 116 occurrences253–245 Mya — about 4 occurrences245–237 Mya — about 11 occurrences237–229 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences180–172 Mya — about 1 occurrence172–164 Mya — about 4 occurrences164–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences147–139 Mya — about 2 occurrences139–131 Mya — about 14 occurrences131–123 Mya — about 23 occurrences123–115 Mya — about 6 occurrences99–91 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences91–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–58 Mya — about 22 occurrences58–50 Mya — about 4 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 5 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 8 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–9.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences247 Mya20.45 Mya253 Mya9 Mya

116 occurrences of Stylosphaera on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

116 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

7 formations

Maiolica — 43.35°N, 12.71°EMaiolica — 43.48°N, 12.72°EMaiolica — 45.64°N, 9.95°EMaiolica — 44.00°N, 14.00°EMead Hill — 41.92°S, 174.07°ELefkara — 35.08°N, 33.67°EStrubberg — 47.57°N, 12.96°EXinyuan — 25.62°N, 106.60°ELower Kanguk — 78.18°N, 99.77°WTakinoue — 42.80°N, 142.35°E

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The named rock units Stylosphaera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 45 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stylosphaera and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Stylosphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

522 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 103 sites for Stylosphaera, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

19 references

Each of the 116 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. 7 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 Stylosphaera

Credit
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919); engravings by Adolf Giltsch (1852-1911).
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Stylosphaera 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 itStylosphaeridae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1847