Siphonophycus robustum

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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 1961 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2500 Mya to 538.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 2800 Mya to 525.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 3 of 50 occurrencesOrdovician — about 0 of 50 occurrences2845–2767 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2767–2688 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2688–2609 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2609–2530 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2530–2451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2057–1978 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1978–1899 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1899–1820 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1820–1742 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1742–1663 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1663–1584 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1584–1505 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1505–1426 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1426–1347 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1347–1269 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1269–1190 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1190–1111 Mya — about 4 occurrences1111–1032 Mya — about 4 occurrences1032–953 Mya — about 5 occurrences953–874 Mya — about 6 occurrences874–795 Mya — about 6 occurrences795–717 Mya — about 6 occurrences717–638 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences638–559 Mya — about 5 occurrences559–480 Mya — about 4 occurrences2500 Mya538.8 Mya2845 Mya480 Mya

50 occurrences of Siphonophycus robustum 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

50 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

22 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°WRyssö — 79.97°N, 18.28°ERyssö — 79.93°N, 18.46°EBitter Springs — 23.58°S, 134.49°EBitter Springs — 23.79°S, 133.07°EMortensnes — 70.56°N, 28.08°EMortensnes — 70.55°N, 28.04°EKasegalik — 56.49°N, 79.51°WCraggy Dolomite — 65.26°N, 140.94°WYuhucun — 24.56°N, 102.72°EYuhucun — 24.71°N, 102.57°EBlue Hole — 17.09°S, 130.38°EYurtus — 40.52°N, 79.05°ETal — 30.59°N, 77.68°EAlicia — 36.97°S, 60.27°WGdov — 59.42°N, 27.97°EKotlin — 59.09°N, 27.17°ENelson Head — 67.62°N, 115.73°WMcLeary — 56.53°N, 79.17°WKotuikan — 70.60°N, 104.60°EKogelbeen — 28.38°S, 23.48°ENanisivik — 72.76°N, 83.56°WVictor Bay — 72.33°N, 79.78°WGaoyuzhuang — 40.65°N, 115.43°EAvzyan — 54.73°N, 58.18°EMin'yar — 53.84°N, 57.16°E

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The named rock units Siphonophycus robustum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

213 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Siphonophycus robustum, 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

22 references

Each of the 50 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. 10 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 robustum 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 robustum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Siphonophycus robustum 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 itSiphonophycus through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schopf 1968)