Siphonophycus septatum

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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.

Cambrian — about 0 of 16 occurrences1825–1782 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1782–1738 Mya — about 1 occurrence1738–1694 Mya — about 1 occurrence1694–1650 Mya — about 1 occurrence1650–1607 Mya — about 1 occurrence1607–1563 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1213–1169 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1169–1126 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1126–1082 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1082–1038 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1038–995 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences995–951 Mya — about 1 occurrence951–907 Mya — about 1 occurrence907–863 Mya — about 1 occurrence863–820 Mya — about 1 occurrence820–776 Mya — about 1 occurrence776–732 Mya — about 1 occurrence732–688 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences645–601 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences601–557 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences557–514 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1600 Mya635 Mya1825 Mya514 Mya

16 occurrences of Siphonophycus septatum 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

16 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

8 formations

Barney Creek — 16.44°S, 136.09°EBarney Creek — 16.43°S, 136.04°EBitter Springs — 23.58°S, 134.49°EBitter Springs — 23.79°S, 133.07°EBlue Hole — 17.09°S, 130.38°EGdov — 59.42°N, 27.97°EKotlin — 59.09°N, 27.17°ENelson Head — 67.62°N, 115.73°WVictor Bay — 72.33°N, 79.78°WRyssö — 79.96°N, 18.32°E

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The named rock units Siphonophycus septatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

136 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Siphonophycus septatum, 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

9 references

Each of the 16 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

Media content0

No picture of Siphonophycus septatum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 septatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Siphonophycus septatum 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. (Schopf 1968)