Eoentophysalis

No picture of Eoentophysalis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Eoentophysalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EntophysalidaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyanobacteria

Time the record covers

At least 1500 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2500 Mya to 1000 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 2800 Mya to 720 Mya.

2842–2769 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2769–2697 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2697–2625 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2625–2553 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2553–2481 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2121–2048 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2048–1976 Mya — about 2 occurrences1976–1904 Mya — about 2 occurrences1904–1832 Mya — about 2 occurrences1832–1760 Mya — about 1 occurrence1616–1544 Mya — about 2 occurrences1544–1472 Mya — about 3 occurrences1472–1399 Mya — about 3 occurrences1399–1327 Mya — about 2 occurrences1327–1255 Mya — about 2 occurrences1255–1183 Mya — about 1 occurrence1039–967 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences967–895 Mya — about 1 occurrence895–823 Mya — about 1 occurrence823–751 Mya — about 1 occurrence751–678 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2500 Mya1000 Mya2842 Mya678 Mya

27 occurrences of Eoentophysalis 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

27 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

11 formations

Kasegalik — 56.49°N, 79.51°WBalbirini Dolomite — 16.75°S, 135.74°EBalbirini Dolomite — 16.75°S, 135.74°EMcLeary — 56.54°N, 79.24°WKotuikan — 70.60°N, 104.60°EAvzyan — 54.73°N, 58.18°EYusmastakh — 70.56°N, 104.32°EKendall River — 67.54°N, 117.78°WKogelbeen — 28.38°S, 23.48°EBitter Springs — 23.79°S, 133.07°EGaoyuzhuang — 40.65°N, 115.43°EAllamoore — 31.15°N, 104.97°W

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The named rock units Eoentophysalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

100 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Eoentophysalis, 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

11 references

Each of the 27 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 Eoentophysalis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Eoentophysalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Eoentophysalis 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 itEntophysalidaceae through time

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hofmann 1976