Life

No picture of Life was found. Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Life itself, so it was not used. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Life 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.

Time the record covers

At least 714 million years on record.

The record covers at least 720 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 1000 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1007 of 12000 occurrencesOrdovician — about 4081 of 12000 occurrencesSilurian — about 2787 of 12000 occurrencesDevonian — about 1387 of 12000 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 2593 of 12000 occurrencesPermian — about 134 of 12000 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 12000 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 12000 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 12000 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 12000 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 12000 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 12000 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 12000 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 12000 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 12000 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 12000 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 12000 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 12000 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 12000 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 12000 occurrences1020–986 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences986–952 Mya — about 1 occurrence952–918 Mya — about 1 occurrence918–884 Mya — about 1 occurrence884–850 Mya — about 1 occurrence850–816 Mya — about 1 occurrence816–782 Mya — about 1 occurrence782–748 Mya — about 1 occurrence748–714 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences544–510 Mya — about 182 occurrences510–476 Mya — about 1133 occurrences476–442 Mya — about 3875 occurrences442–408 Mya — about 3099 occurrences408–374 Mya — about 800 occurrences374–340 Mya — about 1067 occurrences340–306 Mya — about 790 occurrences306–272 Mya — about 1043 occurrences34–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence720 Mya5.333 Mya1020 Mya0 Mya

12,000+ occurrences of Life on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

12,000 occurrences read

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. The read hit its cap, so every figure above is a floor and the shares are of the occurrences read. More on what this infers.

Found in

at least 309 formations

Kope — 38.87°N, 84.46°WKope — 39.00°N, 84.00°WEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WWaynesville — 39.45°N, 83.83°WWaynesville — 39.44°N, 84.20°WWaynesville — 39.42°N, 85.01°WWaynesville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WDeadwood — 43.85°N, 103.36°WDeadwood — 44.42°N, 103.71°WDeadwood — 47.42°N, 105.59°WDeadwood — 47.15°N, 110.22°WDeadwood — 47.98°N, 102.92°WMahantango — 40.50°N, 77.25°WMahantango — 40.05°N, 77.52°WFairview — 39.47°N, 87.41°WFairview — 39.00°N, 84.00°WJoslin Hill — 43.21°N, 75.46°WWhitewater — 39.83°N, 84.89°WWhitewater — 39.42°N, 85.01°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WForaker Limestome — 39.49°N, 96.27°WForaker Limestome — 39.07°N, 96.07°WForaker Limestome — 39.25°N, 96.57°WForaker Limestome — 39.39°N, 96.41°WForaker Limestome — 39.07°N, 96.18°WDenley Limestone — 43.21°N, 75.46°WLangara — 60.00°N, 11.00°ELangara — 59.88°N, 10.59°ECape Phillips — 75.13°N, 95.00°WCape Phillips — 75.00°N, 95.00°WCape Phillips — 75.10°N, 94.00°WCape Phillips — 74.10°N, 94.00°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.17°N, 78.69°WKings Falls — 43.21°N, 75.46°WLangoyen — 60.00°N, 11.00°ELangoyen — 59.88°N, 10.59°EElton Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WElton Beds — 52.17°N, 3.42°WElton Beds — 52.12°N, 3.55°WHenryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WSolvik — 59.92°N, 10.75°EAlan Mountain Limestone — 47.42°N, 105.59°WWann — 36.57°N, 95.98°WWann — 36.76°N, 96.01°WWann — 36.53°N, 95.98°WWann — 36.92°N, 95.81°WWann — 36.92°N, 95.90°WWann — 36.55°N, 96.08°WLost Branch — 40.73°N, 92.87°WLost Branch — 40.48°N, 93.00°WLost Branch — 38.25°N, 94.69°WLost Branch — 37.16°N, 95.46°WLost Branch — 37.19°N, 95.42°WLost Branch — 38.02°N, 94.91°WLost Branch — 35.94°N, 96.00°WLost Branch — 35.12°N, 96.43°WCorryville — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLiberty — 39.42°N, 85.01°WLiberty — 39.00°N, 84.00°WStanton — 41.01°N, 96.23°WStanton — 41.29°N, 95.09°WStanton — 41.37°N, 94.19°WStanton — 37.68°N, 95.64°WStanton — 37.13°N, 95.81°WStanton — 37.00°N, 95.83°WStanton — 37.22°N, 95.83°W

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The named rock units Life has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. The read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 285 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,653 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

570 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 245 sites for Life, and this reads 240 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

at least 249 references

Each of the 12,000 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. That read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 237 further references are not listed. 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 Life was found. Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Life itself, so it was not used.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Life 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.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.