Archaeonema
No picture of Archaeonema was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Archaeonema, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OscillatoriaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Cyanobacteria
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
- Environment
- hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Time the record covers
At least 800 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1800 Mya to 1000 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 2050 Mya to 720 Mya.
3 occurrences of Archaeonema 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
3 formations
- Bitter Springs Formation1
- Skillogalee Dolomite Formation · Burra Group1
- Rocknest Formation · Epworth Group1
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The named rock units Archaeonema has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Anabaenidium johnsonii1 site
- Archaeotrichion1 site
- Archaeotrichion contortum1 site
- Biocatenoides rhabdos1 site
- Biocatenoides sphaerula1 site
- Brevitrichoides1 site
- Calyptothrix annulata1 site
- Caryosphaeroides pristina1 site
- Caryosphaeroides tetras1 site
- Caudiculophycus rivularioides1 site
- Cephalophytarion grande1 site
- Cephalophytarion minutum1 site
- Contortothrix vermiformis1 site
- Cyanonema attenuatum1 site
- Eomicrhystridium1 site
- Eomycetopsis1 site
- Glenobotrydion aenigmatis1 site
- Globophycus rugosum1 site
- Gloeodiniopsis lamellosa1 site
- Gunflintia1 site
- Halythrix nodosa1 site
- Heliconema australiensis1 site
- Huroniospora1 site
- Huroniospora microreticulata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Archaeonema, 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
3 references- Shelf-facies microbiotas from the Odjick and Rocknest formations (Epworth Group; 1.89 Ga), northwestern Canada1
- Microorganisms from the Late Precambrian of South Australia1
- Microflora of the Bitter Springs Formation, Late Precambrian, central Australia1
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. 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 Archaeonema was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Archaeonema, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Archaeonema was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOscillatoriaceae through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schopf 1968