Umbilicosphaera jafari

Umbilicosphaera jafari

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
UmbilicosphaeraPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
Life habit
planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
Environment
oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 7 of 764 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 516 of 764 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 172 of 764 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 68 of 764 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 16 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 19 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 19 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 17 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 17 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 17 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 17 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 19 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 23 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 23 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 50 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 57 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 38 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 25 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 29 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 29 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 29 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 30 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 35 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 43 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 48 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 72 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 38 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 24 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 24 occurrences23.04 Mya129 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

764 occurrences of Umbilicosphaera jafari on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

764 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.

Umbilicosphaera jafari and its relatives

Miocene

Where Umbilicosphaera jafari and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

90 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 762 sites for Umbilicosphaera jafari, and this reads 240 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

35 references

Each of the 764 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. 23 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 Umbilicosphaera jafari

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

No 3D scan of Umbilicosphaera jafari 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 itUmbilicosphaera through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muller 1974