Clonophycus ostiolum

No picture of Clonophycus ostiolum was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Clonophycus ostiolum firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ClonophycusPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Acritarcha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Acritarcha

Time the record covers

At most 200 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1600 Mya and 1400 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

1604–1597 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1597–1590 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1590–1583 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1583–1576 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1576–1569 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1569–1562 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1562–1555 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1555–1549 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1549–1542 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1542–1535 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1535–1528 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1528–1521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1521–1514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1514–1507 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1507–1500 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1500–1493 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1493–1486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1486–1479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1479–1472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1472–1465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1465–1458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1458–1451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1451–1445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1445–1438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1438–1431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1431–1424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1424–1417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1417–1410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1410–1403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1403–1396 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1604 Mya1396 Mya

2 occurrences of Clonophycus ostiolum 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

2 formations

Balbirini Dolomite — 16.75°S, 135.74°EWumishan — 40.28°N, 116.20°E

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

Found in the same rock

26 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Clonophycus ostiolum, 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Clonophycus ostiolum was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Clonophycus ostiolum firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Clonophycus ostiolum 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 itClonophycus through time

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Oehler 1978