Ostiana

No picture of Ostiana 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 Ostiana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 662 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1200 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 4 occurrences1213–1190 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1190–1167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1167–1144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1144–1122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1122–1099 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1099–1076 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1076–1053 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1053–1030 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1030–1007 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1007–984 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences984–961 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences961–938 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences938–915 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences915–892 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences892–869 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences869–846 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences846–824 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences824–801 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences801–778 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences778–755 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences755–732 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences732–709 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences709–686 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences686–663 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences663–640 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences640–617 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences617–594 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences594–571 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences571–548 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences548–526 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1213 Mya526 Mya

4 occurrences of Ostiana 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 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

4 formations

Lone Land — 63.40°N, 123.24°WNelson Head — 67.62°N, 115.73°WVychegda — 62.00°N, 52.50°EUpper Visingsö — 58.02°N, 14.32°E

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

Found in the same rock

62 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ostiana, 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

4 references

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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Ostiana 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 Ostiana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ostiana 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCyanobacteria through time

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