Zosterosphaera tripunctata

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 280 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1000 Mya and 720 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

1006–996 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences996–986 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences986–976 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences976–967 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences967–957 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences957–947 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences947–938 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences938–928 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences928–918 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences918–909 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences909–899 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences899–889 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences889–879 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences879–870 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences870–860 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences860–850 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences850–841 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences841–831 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences831–821 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences821–811 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences811–802 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences802–792 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences792–782 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences782–773 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences773–763 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences763–753 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences753–744 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences744–734 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences734–724 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences724–714 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1006 Mya714 Mya

2 occurrences of Zosterosphaera tripunctata 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

2 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

1 formation

Bitter Springs — 23.58°S, 134.49°EBitter Springs — 23.79°S, 133.07°E

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The named rock units Zosterosphaera tripunctata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

47 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Zosterosphaera tripunctata, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Zosterosphaera tripunctata 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 Zosterosphaera tripunctata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Zosterosphaera tripunctata 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 itZosterosphaera through time

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