Coryphidium sp.
Coryphidium is an extinct genus of acritarchs.
No picture of Coryphidium sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Coryphidium 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 9.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 477.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Coryphidium sp. on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Coryphidium sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Coryphidium sp. and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Coryphidium sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Bienvillia parchaensis2 sites
- Caldariola glabra2 sites
- Cymatiogalea2 sites
- Ogygiocaris araiorhachis2 sites
- Thysanopyge taurinus2 sites
- Vavrdovella areniga2 sites
- Hypermecaspis armata1 site
- Hypermecaspis inermis1 site
- Kayseraspsis sp.1 site
- Rhopaliophora palmata1 site
- Stelliferidium cf. trifidium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Coryphidium sp., 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 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Coryphidium sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Coryphidium 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 Coryphidium 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Coryphidium”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
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.