Palaeolyngbya

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 1061 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1600 Mya to 538.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 1800 Mya to 525.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 4 of 22 occurrences1825–1781 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1781–1737 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1737–1693 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1693–1649 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1649–1605 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1605–1560 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1560–1516 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1516–1472 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1472–1428 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1428–1384 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1207–1163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1163–1119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1119–1074 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1074–1030 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1030–986 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences986–942 Mya — about 1 occurrence942–898 Mya — about 1 occurrence898–853 Mya — about 1 occurrence853–809 Mya — about 1 occurrence809–765 Mya — about 1 occurrence765–721 Mya — about 1 occurrence721–677 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences677–633 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences633–588 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences588–544 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences544–500 Mya — about 4 occurrences1600 Mya538.8 Mya1825 Mya500 Mya

22 occurrences of Palaeolyngbya 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

22 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

Yuhucun — 24.71°N, 102.57°EKushalgarh — 27.89°N, 76.38°EBitter Springs — 23.58°S, 134.49°EBitter Springs — 23.79°S, 133.07°ECraggy Dolomite — 65.26°N, 140.94°WGaoyuzhuang — 40.65°N, 115.43°EGdov — 59.42°N, 27.97°EKotlin — 59.09°N, 27.17°ENelson Head — 67.62°N, 115.73°WUst'Il'ya — 70.64°N, 105.28°EBalbirini Dolomite — 16.75°S, 135.74°EMin'yar — 53.84°N, 57.16°E

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The named rock units Palaeolyngbya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

156 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Palaeolyngbya, 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 22 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 Palaeolyngbya 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 Palaeolyngbya, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Palaeolyngbya 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 itOscillatoriaceae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schopf 1968