Primoflagella sp.
No picture of Primoflagella sp. was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Primoflagella sp. 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 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 525.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 521 Mya.
5 occurrences of Primoflagella sp. on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
5 occurrences- Cambrian20%
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
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The named rock units Primoflagella sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Primoflagella sp. and its relatives
CambrianWhere Primoflagella sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Primoflagella speciosa4 sites
- Leiosphaeridia minutissima3 sites
- Leiosphaeridia tenuissima3 sites
- Cephalonyx geminatus2 sites
- Cerebrosphaera2 sites
- Coniunctiophycus2 sites
- Eoschizothrix2 sites
- Leiosphaeridia2 sites
- Leiosphaeridia crassa2 sites
- Leiosphaeridia jacutica2 sites
- Micrhystridium tornatum2 sites
- Palaeolyngbya2 sites
- Polytrichoides2 sites
- Pterospermopsimorpha2 sites
- Rugosoopsis tenuis2 sites
- Simia2 sites
- Siphonophycus2 sites
- Siphonophycus kestron2 sites
- Siphonophycus robustum2 sites
- Siphonophycus septatum2 sites
- Siphonophycus typicum2 sites
- Symplassosphaeridium2 sites
- Tortunema2 sites
- Tyrasotaenia podolica2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Primoflagella sp., 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 in the Ediacaran of Estonia: Biodiversity on the East European Platform2
- Legend of the Central European series of sheets of the State Geological Map of the Russian Federation, scale 1:1,000,000 (third generation)2
- Paleontological Characteristics of the Upper Vendian-Lower Cambrian Sediments in the Section of the North Polotsk Borehole of the East European Platform, Belarus1
Each of the 5 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 Primoflagella sp. was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Primoflagella sp. 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 of Primoflagella sp. was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.