Thoracosphaera heimii

Thoracosphaera heimii

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThoracosphaeraPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 4.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 61.66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 59.24 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 6 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 6 occurrencesPaleocene72–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66 Mya61.66 Mya72.7 Mya58.7 Mya

6 occurrences of Thoracosphaera heimii on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

6 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

2 formations

Campo Bola — 51.74°S, 69.17°WJagüel — 39.86°S, 66.62°WJagüel — 39.86°S, 67.62°W

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The named rock units Thoracosphaera heimii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thoracosphaera heimii and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Thoracosphaera heimii and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

67 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Thoracosphaera heimii, 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 6 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

Media content1

Picture of Thoracosphaera heimii

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Thoracosphaera heimii 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 itThoracosphaera through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lohmann 1919)