Cephalophytarion minutum
No picture of Cephalophytarion minutum was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Cephalophytarion minutum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CephalophytarionPBDB
- 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.
2 occurrences of Cephalophytarion minutum 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 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cephalophytarion minutum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Archaeotrichion contortum2 sites
- Biocatenoides rhabdos2 sites
- Biocatenoides sphaerula2 sites
- Calyptothrix annulata2 sites
- Caryosphaeroides pristina2 sites
- Caryosphaeroides tetras2 sites
- Caudiculophycus rivularioides2 sites
- Cephalophytarion grande2 sites
- Cyanonema attenuatum2 sites
- Glenobotrydion aenigmatis2 sites
- Globophycus rugosum2 sites
- Gloeodiniopsis lamellosa2 sites
- Heliconema australiensis2 sites
- Myxococcoides minor2 sites
- Myxococcoides reticulata2 sites
- Palaeoanacystis vulgaris2 sites
- Siphonophycus kestron2 sites
- Siphonophycus robustum2 sites
- Siphonophycus septatum2 sites
- Sphaerophycus parvum2 sites
- Zosterosphaera tripunctata2 sites
- Anabaenidium johnsonii1 site
- Archaeonema longicellulare1 site
- Caudiculophycus acuminatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cephalophytarion minutum, 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- New microorganisms from the Bitter Springs Formation (late Precambrian) of the north-central Amadeus Basin, Australia1
- Microflora of the Bitter Springs Formation, Late Precambrian, central Australia1
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 Cephalophytarion minutum was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Cephalophytarion minutum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCephalophytarion through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schopf 1968