Cryptozoon

No picture of Cryptozoon was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cryptozoon 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
AlgaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Algae

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 497 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 12 of 14 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 14 occurrences638–633 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences633–628 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences628–623 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences623–617 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences617–612 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences612–607 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences607–602 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences602–597 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences597–592 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences592–587 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences587–581 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences581–576 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences576–571 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences571–566 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences566–561 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences561–556 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences556–551 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences551–546 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences546–540 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences540–535 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences499–494 Mya — about 3 occurrences494–489 Mya — about 6 occurrences489–484 Mya — about 3 occurrences538.8 Mya497 Mya638 Mya484 Mya

14 occurrences of Cryptozoon 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

14 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

2 formations

Warrior — 40.82°N, 77.93°WKaladgi — 16.28°N, 75.43°E

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

Cryptozoon and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Cryptozoon and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

5 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Cryptozoon, 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

2 references

Each of the 14 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

Media content1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No picture of Cryptozoon was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cryptozoon 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.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itAlgae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1884