Archaeotrichion contortum
No picture of Archaeotrichion contortum was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Archaeotrichion contortum 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
- ArchaeotrichionPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 2661 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3200 Mya to 538.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 3600 Mya to 525.5 Mya.
4 occurrences of Archaeotrichion contortum 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
4 occurrences- Cambrian25%
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
3 formations
- Bitter Springs Formation2
- Yuhucun Formation1
- Dresser Formation · Warrawoona Group1
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The named rock units Archaeotrichion contortum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Siphonophycus robustum3 sites
- Biocatenoides rhabdos2 sites
- Biocatenoides sphaerula2 sites
- Calyptothrix annulata2 sites
- Caryosphaeroides pristina2 sites
- Caryosphaeroides tetras2 sites
- Caudiculophycus rivularioides2 sites
- Cephalophytarion grande2 sites
- Cephalophytarion minutum2 sites
- Cyanonema attenuatum2 sites
- Glenobotrydion aenigmatis2 sites
- Globophycus rugosum2 sites
- Gloeodiniopsis lamellosa2 sites
- Heliconema australiensis2 sites
- Myxococcoides minor2 sites
- Myxococcoides reticulata2 sites
- Palaeoanacystis vulgaris2 sites
- Siphonophycus kestron2 sites
- Siphonophycus septatum2 sites
- Sphaerophycus parvum2 sites
- Zosterosphaera tripunctata2 sites
- Anabaenidium johnsonii1 site
- Archaeonema longicellulare1 site
- Archaeosphaeroides pilbarensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Archaeotrichion contortum, 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
4 references- Filamentous bacteria from the Archean of Western Australia1
- The Sinian microfossils from Jinning, Yunnan, south west China1
- New microorganisms from the Bitter Springs Formation (late Precambrian) of the north-central Amadeus Basin, Australia1
- Microflora of the Bitter Springs Formation, Late Precambrian, central Australia1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Archaeotrichion contortum was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Archaeotrichion contortum 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 Archaeotrichion contortum 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schopf 1968