Eoastrion simplex
No picture of Eoastrion simplex was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Eoastrion simplex 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
- EoastrionPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 450 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2050 Mya and 1600 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Eoastrion simplex 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
- Gunflint Chert Formation2
- Sokoman Formation · Ferriman Group2
- Frere Formation · Earaheedy Group1
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The named rock units Eoastrion simplex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Gunflintia minuta6 sites
- Huroniospora4 sites
- Animikiea septata3 sites
- Eoastrion bifurcatum3 sites
- Gunflintia grandis3 sites
- Kakabekia umbellata3 sites
- Archaeorestis2 sites
- Archaeorestis schreiberensis2 sites
- Huroniospora microreticulata2 sites
- Animikiea1 site
- Archaeoellipsoides dolichos1 site
- Archaeoellipsoides elongatus1 site
- Corymbococcus1 site
- Entosphaeroides amplus1 site
- Eosphaera tyleri1 site
- Eosynechococcus medius1 site
- Germinosphaera1 site
- Huroniospora macroreticulata1 site
- Huroniospora psilata1 site
- Myxococcoides minutus1 site
- Sphaerophycus parvum1 site
- Tetraphycus major1 site
- Thymos1 site
- Xenothrix inconcreta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Eoastrion simplex, 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
4 references- Early Proterozoic microfossils and penecontemporaneous quartz cementation in the Sokoman Iron Formation, Canada2
- Microorganisms from the Gunflint Chert2
- Microfossils in 2000 Ma old cherty stromatolites of the Franceville Group, Gabon1
- Microfossils from a newly discovered Precambrian stromatolitic iron formation in Western Australia1
Each of the 6 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.
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No picture of Eoastrion simplex was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Eoastrion simplex 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 Eoastrion simplex 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itEoastrion through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barghoorn 1965