Tawuia sinensis
No picture of Tawuia sinensis 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 Tawuia sinensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TawuiaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Chlorophyta
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Chlorophyta
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Chlorophyta
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Chlorophyta
Time the record covers
At least 600 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1600 Mya to 1000 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 1800 Mya to 635 Mya.
3 occurrences of Tawuia sinensis 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
3 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
2 formations
- Chuanlinggou Formation2
- Liulaobei Formation · Huainan Group1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Tawuia sinensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Chuaria circularis2 sites
- Changchengia1 site
- Glossophyton ovalis1 site
- Sinosabellidites huainanensis1 site
- Tawuia dalensis1 site
- Tawuia robusta1 site
- Tuanshanzia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tawuia sinensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Macroscopic fossils from the Chuanlinggou Formation of North China: evidence for an earlier origin of multicellular algae in the late Palaeoproterozoic2
- Macroscopic worm-like body fossils from the upper precambrian (900-700 Ma), huainan district, anhui, China and their stratigraphic and evolutionary significance1
Each of the 3 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
Media content0
No picture of Tawuia sinensis 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 Tawuia sinensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tawuia sinensis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTawuia through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Duan 1982