Doushantuophyton

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChlorophytaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Chlorophyta
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Chlorophyta
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Chlorophyta
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Chlorophyta

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 500.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 2 of 5 occurrencesCambrian638–633 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences633–628 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences628–623 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences623–619 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences619–614 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences614–609 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences609–604 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences604–599 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences599–595 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences595–590 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences590–585 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences585–580 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences580–576 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 occurrences556–552 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences552–547 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences547–542 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences542–537 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences518–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–509 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences509–504 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences504–499 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences499–494 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences538.8 Mya500.5 Mya638 Mya494 Mya

5 occurrences of Doushantuophyton 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

Doushantuo — 30.88°N, 110.88°ELantian — 29.90°N, 118.08°ELongha — 23.26°N, 105.54°EBalang — 28.42°N, 109.42°E

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

Doushantuophyton and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Doushantuophyton and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

166 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Doushantuophyton, 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

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. 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 content0

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

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Doushantuophyton, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Doushantuophyton 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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What may have been alongside itChlorophyta through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Steiner 1994