Virgulacytheridea sherifensis
No picture of Virgulacytheridea sherifensis was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Virgulacytheridea sherifensis 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. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 3.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Virgulacytheridea sherifensis on record, most of them in the Middle 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
3 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
1 formation
- Dhruma Formation · Shaqra Group3
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The named rock units Virgulacytheridea sherifensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Virgulacytheridea sherifensis and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Virgulacytheridea sherifensis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Nautiloculina3 sites
- Progonocythere3 sites
- Afrocytheridea2 sites
- Cytherella2 sites
- Kurnubia2 sites
- Lenticulina munsteri2 sites
- Micropneumatocythere2 sites
- Praekurnubia2 sites
- Pseudomarssonella2 sites
- Amicytheridea1 site
- Ammobaculites1 site
- Bairdia1 site
- Cytherelloidea1 site
- Dhrumaella1 site
- Epistomina1 site
- Kinkelinella1 site
- Lenticulina1 site
- Madawacythere sp.1 site
- Mandelstamina sp.1 site
- Paranotacythere1 site
- Procytheridea1 site
- Pseudohutsonia1 site
- Spirillina1 site
- Trocholina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Virgulacytheridea sherifensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Virgulacytheridea sherifensis was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Virgulacytheridea sherifensis 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.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Virgulacytheridea sherifensis 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 itFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.