Ceratophyton sp.

Ceratophyton is a genus of Cambrian acritarch, around 100–200 μm in length, produced by a eukaryotic (metazoan?) organism.

No picture of Ceratophyton sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ceratophyton sp. 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.

Time the record covers

At most 494 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1000 Mya and 506.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 3 of 5 occurrencesCambrian1010–993 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences993–976 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences976–959 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences959–941 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences941–924 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences924–907 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences907–890 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences890–873 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences873–856 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences856–839 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences839–822 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences822–805 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences805–787 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences787–770 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences770–753 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences753–736 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences736–719 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences719–702 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences702–685 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences685–668 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences668–651 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences651–633 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences633–616 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences616–599 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences599–582 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences582–565 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences565–548 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences548–531 Mya — about 1 occurrence531–514 Mya — about 2 occurrences514–497 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1010 Mya497 Mya

5 occurrences of Ceratophyton sp. 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

5 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

4 formations

Tokammane — 79.18°N, 17.50°ETokammane — 78.95°N, 18.33°EKessyusa — 71.33°N, 123.97°EDracoisen — 78.95°N, 18.33°EUra — 60.22°N, 116.93°E

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The named rock units Ceratophyton sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ceratophyton sp. and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Ceratophyton sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

55 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ceratophyton sp., 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 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Ceratophyton sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ceratophyton sp. 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 Ceratophyton sp. 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.

The description on this site

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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.