Vulcanisphaera

Vulcanisphaera

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 506.5 Mya to 486.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 477.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 2 occurrencesOrdovician540–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–536 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences536–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–531 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences529–527 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525–523 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences523–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–519 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences519–517 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences517–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–512 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences512–510 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences510–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–506 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences487–484 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences484–482 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences480–478 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506.5 Mya486.4 Mya540 Mya476 Mya

2 occurrences of Vulcanisphaera on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

2 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

1 formation

Borrachon — 41.00°N, 1.00°W

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The named rock units Vulcanisphaera 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.

Vulcanisphaera and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Vulcanisphaera and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

36 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Vulcanisphaera, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 Vulcanisphaera

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

No 3D scan of Vulcanisphaera was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itDinophyceae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deunff 1961