Primoflagella speciosa
No picture of Primoflagella speciosa was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Primoflagella speciosa 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.
Time the record covers
At most 97 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 635 Mya and 538.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Primoflagella speciosa 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 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Primoflagella speciosa 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.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Cephalonyx geminatus2 sites
- Cerebrosphaera2 sites
- Coniunctiophycus2 sites
- Eoschizothrix2 sites
- Leiosphaeridia2 sites
- Leiosphaeridia crassa2 sites
- Leiosphaeridia jacutica2 sites
- Leiosphaeridia minutissima2 sites
- Leiosphaeridia tenuissima2 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
- Aataenia reticularis1 site
- Berkutaphycus sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Primoflagella speciosa, 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
2 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
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. 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.
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No picture of Primoflagella speciosa was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Primoflagella speciosa 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 Primoflagella speciosa was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.