Synsphaeridium

No picture of Synsphaeridium was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Synsphaeridium firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcritarchaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Acritarcha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Acritarcha

Time the record covers

At least 365 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1000 Mya to 635 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 1200 Mya to 538.8 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 36 occurrences1213–1190 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1190–1167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1167–1144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1144–1122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1122–1099 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1099–1076 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1076–1053 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1053–1030 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1030–1007 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1007–984 Mya — about 1 occurrence984–961 Mya — about 2 occurrences961–938 Mya — about 2 occurrences938–915 Mya — about 2 occurrences915–892 Mya — about 2 occurrences892–869 Mya — about 2 occurrences869–846 Mya — about 2 occurrences846–824 Mya — about 2 occurrences824–801 Mya — about 2 occurrences801–778 Mya — about 2 occurrences778–755 Mya — about 2 occurrences755–732 Mya — about 2 occurrences732–709 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences640–617 Mya — about 3 occurrences617–594 Mya — about 3 occurrences594–571 Mya — about 3 occurrences571–548 Mya — about 3 occurrences548–526 Mya — about 1 occurrence1000 Mya635 Mya1213 Mya526 Mya

36 occurrences of Synsphaeridium on record. 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

36 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

11 formations

Alinya — 28.43°S, 132.39°EMortensnes — 70.56°N, 28.08°EMortensnes — 70.55°N, 28.04°EGaleros — 36.14°N, 111.83°WGaleros — 36.15°N, 111.83°WNyborg — 70.56°N, 28.08°EStahpogieddi — 70.55°N, 28.04°EStahpogieddi — 70.57°N, 28.12°EKwagunt — 36.21°N, 111.84°WKwagunt — 36.28°N, 111.88°WAlicia — 36.97°S, 60.27°WCerro Negro — 36.97°S, 60.27°WKotlin — 59.09°N, 27.17°ENelson Head — 67.62°N, 115.73°WUpper Visingsö — 58.02°N, 14.32°E

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

Found in the same rock

84 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Synsphaeridium, 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

7 references

Each of the 36 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 Synsphaeridium was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Synsphaeridium firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Synsphaeridium 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 itAcritarcha through time

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eisenack 1965