Siphonophycus punctatum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SiphonophycusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Cyanobacteria
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
- Environment
- hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Time the record covers
At least 965 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1600 Mya to 635 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 1800 Mya to 538.8 Mya.
4 occurrences of Siphonophycus punctatum 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
- Kotlin Formation1
- Nelson Head Formation · Shaler Group1
- Blue Hole Formation · Limbunya Group1
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The named rock units Siphonophycus punctatum 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
61 taxa- Leiosphaeridia crassa3 sites
- Leiosphaeridia jacutica3 sites
- Leiosphaeridia minutissima3 sites
- Pterospermopsimorpha3 sites
- Siphonophycus septatum3 sites
- Siphonophycus solidum3 sites
- Siphonophycus typicum3 sites
- Coneosphaera2 sites
- Gigantosphaeridium fibratum2 sites
- Leiosphaeridia2 sites
- Leiosphaeridia tenuissima2 sites
- Oscillatoriopsis2 sites
- Palaeolyngbya2 sites
- Rugosoopsis tenuis2 sites
- Satka favosa2 sites
- Siphonophycus robustum2 sites
- Squamosphaera colonialica2 sites
- Synsphaeridium2 sites
- Tortunema2 sites
- Valeria lophostriata2 sites
- Berkutaphycus sp.1 site
- Birrindudutuba brigandinia1 site
- Caelatimurus foveolatus1 site
- Cephalonyx geminatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Siphonophycus punctatum, 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
4 references- Early eukaryotic microfossils of the late Palaeoproterozoic Limbunya Group, Birrindudu Basin, northern Australia1
- Organic-walled microfossils in the Ediacaran of Estonia: Biodiversity on the East European Platform1
- Organic-walled microfossils from the late Mesoproterozoic to early Neoproterozoic lower Shaler Supergroup (Arctic Canada): Diversity and biostratigraphic significance1
- Micro-organisms from the Bushimay System (late Pre-Cambrian) of Kanshi, Zaire1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Siphonophycus punctatum 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 punctatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Siphonophycus punctatum 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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What may have been alongside itSiphonophycus through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Maithy 1975)