Heliconema australiensis
No picture of Heliconema australiensis 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 Heliconema australiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeliconemaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Cyanobacteria
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
- Environment
- hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Time the record covers
At most 280 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1000 Mya and 720 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Heliconema australiensis 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
4 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Heliconema australiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Glenobotrydion aenigmatis4 sites
- Myxococcoides minor4 sites
- Palaeoanacystis vulgaris4 sites
- Filiconstrictosus diminutus3 sites
- Sphaerophycus parvum3 sites
- Archaeotrichion contortum2 sites
- Biocatenoides rhabdos2 sites
- Biocatenoides sphaerula2 sites
- Calyptothrix annulata2 sites
- Caryosphaeroides pristina2 sites
- Caryosphaeroides tetras2 sites
- Caudiculophycus rivularioides2 sites
- Cephalophytarion grande2 sites
- Cephalophytarion minutum2 sites
- Cyanonema attenuatum2 sites
- Globophycus rugosum2 sites
- Gloeodiniopsis lamellosa2 sites
- Myxococcoides reticulata2 sites
- Oscillatoriopsis majesticum2 sites
- Oscillatoriopsis obtusa2 sites
- Palaeoanacystis magna2 sites
- Palaeolyngbya barghoorniana2 sites
- Siphonophycus kestron2 sites
- Siphonophycus robustum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Heliconema australiensis, 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
3 references- Organic-walled microfossils from earliest Cambrian or latest Proterozoic Tindir Group rocks, northwest Canada2
- New microorganisms from the Bitter Springs Formation (late Precambrian) of the north-central Amadeus Basin, Australia1
- Microflora of the Bitter Springs Formation, Late Precambrian, central Australia1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Heliconema australiensis 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 Heliconema australiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heliconema australiensis 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 itHeliconema through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schopf 1968