Chroococcaceae

Chroococcaceae is a family of cyanobacteria.

Chroococcaceae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 1740 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1800 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 2050 Mya to 56 Mya.

Cambrian — about 4 of 191 occurrencesOrdovician — about 0 of 191 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 191 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 191 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 191 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 191 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 191 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 191 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 191 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 191 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 191 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 191 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 191 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 191 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 191 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 191 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 191 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 191 occurrences2090–2021 Mya — about 4 occurrences2021–1952 Mya — about 10 occurrences1952–1883 Mya — about 10 occurrences1883–1813 Mya — about 10 occurrences1813–1744 Mya — about 9 occurrences1744–1675 Mya — about 9 occurrences1675–1606 Mya — about 9 occurrences1606–1537 Mya — about 8 occurrences1537–1468 Mya — about 7 occurrences1468–1399 Mya — about 7 occurrences1399–1330 Mya — about 5 occurrences1330–1260 Mya — about 5 occurrences1260–1191 Mya — about 5 occurrences1191–1122 Mya — about 6 occurrences1122–1053 Mya — about 6 occurrences1053–984 Mya — about 9 occurrences984–915 Mya — about 16 occurrences915–846 Mya — about 16 occurrences846–776 Mya — about 16 occurrences776–707 Mya — about 14 occurrences707–638 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences638–569 Mya — about 2 occurrences569–500 Mya — about 5 occurrences85–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence1800 Mya59.24 Mya2090 Mya16 Mya

191 occurrences of Chroococcaceae on record, most of them in the Cambrian. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

191 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

36 formations

Bitter Springs — 23.58°S, 134.49°EBitter Springs — 23.79°S, 133.07°EMcLeary — 56.54°N, 79.24°WBarney Creek — 16.44°S, 136.09°EBarney Creek — 16.43°S, 136.04°EKasegalik — 56.49°N, 79.51°WVictor Bay — 73.31°N, 80.47°WVictor Bay — 72.33°N, 79.78°WBalbirini Dolomite — 16.75°S, 135.74°EBalbirini Dolomite — 16.75°S, 135.74°EGaoyuzhuang — 40.65°N, 115.43°EAvzyan — 54.73°N, 58.18°EAvzyan — 54.18°N, 57.55°EAvzyan — 53.53°N, 57.48°EYusmastakh — 70.56°N, 104.32°ECraggy Dolomite — 65.26°N, 140.94°WMin'yar — 53.84°N, 57.16°EAngmaat — 72.27°N, 79.82°WAngmaat — 72.24°N, 79.49°WAngmaat — 72.14°N, 79.01°WAngmaat — 72.13°N, 79.40°WDahongyu — 40.66°N, 115.43°EDahongyu — 40.00°N, 117.00°EKotuikan — 70.60°N, 104.60°EKendall River — 67.54°N, 117.78°WRocknest — 65.70°N, 113.80°WRocknest — 67.55°N, 113.63°WNanisivik — 72.76°N, 83.56°WNanisivik — 72.67°N, 82.03°WAmelia Dolomite — 16.03°S, 135.64°EYuhucun — 24.71°N, 102.57°ESuket Shale — 24.45°N, 75.45°ERyssö — 79.96°N, 18.30°EKushalgarh — 27.89°N, 76.38°EYurtus — 40.52°N, 79.05°EYanjiahe — 30.88°N, 110.83°E

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The named rock units Chroococcaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chroococcaceae and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Chroococcaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

381 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 96 sites for Chroococcaceae, 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

36 references

Each of the 191 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. 24 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Chroococcaceae

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No 3D scan of Chroococcaceae 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.