Melanocyrillium

Melanocyrillium is a Precambrian genus of vesicle-shaped microfossils of uncertain affinity found in the Grand Canyon Supergroup and Togari Group of Tasmania. M. hexodiadema has been described as a "probable lobose amoeba".

No picture of Melanocyrillium was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Melanocyrillium 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
EukaryaPBDB

Time the record covers

At most 462 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1000 Mya and 538.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 0 of 13 occurrences1009–993 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences993–977 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences977–961 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences961–945 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences945–929 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences929–913 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences913–897 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences897–881 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences881–865 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences865–849 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences849–833 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences833–817 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences817–801 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences801–785 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences785–769 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences769–753 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences753–737 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences737–721 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences721–705 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences705–689 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences689–673 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences673–657 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences657–641 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences641–626 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences626–610 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences610–594 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences594–578 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences578–562 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences562–546 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences546–530 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1009 Mya530 Mya

13 occurrences of Melanocyrillium 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

13 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

5 formations

Kwagunt — 36.27°N, 111.89°WKwangunt — 36.20°N, 111.86°WCraggy Dolomite — 65.26°N, 140.94°WCallison Lake — 64.70°N, 139.12°WKingston Peak — 35.77°N, 115.89°W

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

Found in the same rock

26 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Melanocyrillium, 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

5 references

Each of the 13 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 Melanocyrillium was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

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

The description on this site

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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. Bloeser 1985