Rhicnonema
No picture of Rhicnonema was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Rhicnonema 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
- ProkaryotaPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 1261 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1800 Mya to 538.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 2050 Mya to 525.5 Mya.
7 occurrences of Rhicnonema 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
7 occurrences- Cambrian14%
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
- Kasegalik Formation · Belcher Group2
- Angmaat Formation · Uluksan Group2
- Wumishan Formation · Jixian Group1
- Min'yar Formation1
- Yuhucun Formation1
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The named rock units Rhicnonema has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Siphonophycus robustum4 sites
- Siphonophycus inornatum3 sites
- Myxococcoides grandis2 sites
- Sphaerophycus medium2 sites
- Sphaerophycus parvum2 sites
- Archaeoellipsoides conjunctivus1 site
- Archaeoellipsoides dolichos1 site
- Archaeoellipsoides elongatus1 site
- Archaeoellipsoides obesus1 site
- Bigeminococcus grandis1 site
- Biocatenoides1 site
- Biocatenoides sphaerula1 site
- Callosicoccus crauros1 site
- Caudiculophycus1 site
- Cephalophytarion taenia1 site
- Clonophycus ostiolum1 site
- Entosphaeroides1 site
- Eoaphanocapsa oparinii1 site
- Eoentophysalis belcherensis1 site
- Eosynechococcus amadeus1 site
- Eosynechococcus moorei1 site
- Glenobotrydion majorinum1 site
- Gloeodiniopsis lamellosa1 site
- Myxococcoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Rhicnonema, 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- Shelf-facies microfossils from the Uluksan Group (Proterozoic Bylot Supergroup), Baffin Island, Canada2
- Precambrian microflora, Belcher Islands, Canada: significance and systematics2
- Stromatolitic microbiota from the Middle Proterozoic Wumishan Formation (Jixian Group) of the Ming Tombs, Beijing, China1
- Microfossils in stromatolitic cherts from the Upper Proterozoic Min'yar Formation, southern Ural Mountains, USSR1
- The Sinian microfossils from Jinning, Yunnan, south west China1
Each of the 7 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 Rhicnonema was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Rhicnonema 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 Rhicnonema 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.
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What may have been alongside itProkaryota through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hofmann 1976