Siphonophycus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 2661 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3200 Mya to 538.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 3600 Mya to 525.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 3 of 182 occurrencesOrdovician — about 0 of 182 occurrences3661–3555 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3555–3448 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3448–3342 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3342–3235 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3235–3129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2809–2702 Mya — about 1 occurrence2702–2596 Mya — about 1 occurrence2596–2489 Mya — about 1 occurrence2063–1956 Mya — about 2 occurrences1956–1850 Mya — about 2 occurrences1850–1743 Mya — about 7 occurrences1743–1636 Mya — about 11 occurrences1636–1530 Mya — about 7 occurrences1530–1423 Mya — about 5 occurrences1423–1317 Mya — about 2 occurrences1317–1210 Mya — about 2 occurrences1210–1104 Mya — about 13 occurrences1104–997 Mya — about 15 occurrences997–890 Mya — about 29 occurrences890–784 Mya — about 29 occurrences784–677 Mya — about 18 occurrences677–571 Mya — about 24 occurrences571–464 Mya — about 12 occurrences3200 Mya538.8 Mya3661 Mya464 Mya

182 occurrences of Siphonophycus 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

182 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

48 formations

Angmaat — 73.38°N, 80.39°WAngmaat — 72.27°N, 79.82°WAngmaat — 72.25°N, 79.97°WAngmaat — 72.24°N, 79.81°WAngmaat — 72.24°N, 79.49°WAngmaat — 72.14°N, 79.01°WAngmaat — 72.13°N, 79.40°WBlue Hole — 17.09°S, 130.38°EKotlin — 59.09°N, 27.17°EBitter Springs — 23.58°S, 134.49°EBitter Springs — 23.79°S, 133.07°ERyssö — 79.97°N, 18.28°ERyssö — 79.93°N, 18.46°EMortensnes — 70.56°N, 28.08°EMortensnes — 70.55°N, 28.04°EAlinya — 28.43°S, 132.39°EGdov — 59.42°N, 27.97°ENelson Head — 67.62°N, 115.73°WGaleros — 36.11°N, 111.84°WGaleros — 36.27°N, 111.91°WGaleros — 36.16°N, 111.86°WKwagunt — 36.21°N, 111.84°WKwagunt — 36.28°N, 111.88°WAlicia — 36.97°S, 60.27°WVychegda — 62.00°N, 52.50°EVychegda — 61.47°N, 54.73°EVictor Bay — 72.33°N, 79.78°WStone Knife — 64.80°N, 129.78°WStone Knife — 64.78°N, 129.67°WStone Knife — 64.62°N, 128.68°WKogelbeen — 28.38°S, 23.48°EBarney Creek — 16.44°S, 136.09°EBarney Creek — 16.43°S, 136.04°EAmos Knob — 17.25°S, 130.54°EStahpogieddi — 70.55°N, 28.04°EStahpogieddi — 70.57°N, 28.12°EKasegalik — 56.49°N, 79.51°WCraggy Dolomite — 65.26°N, 140.94°WGaoyuzhuang — 40.65°N, 115.43°EAvzyan — 54.73°N, 58.18°EAvzyan — 54.18°N, 57.55°EMin'yar — 53.84°N, 57.16°E

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The named rock units Siphonophycus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

316 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 111 sites for Siphonophycus, 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

42 references

Each of the 182 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. 30 further references are not listed. 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 Siphonophycus 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 Siphonophycus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Siphonophycus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schopf 1968