Epiphyton

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LudloviaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta

Time the record covers

At least 166 million years on record.

The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Cambrian — about 117 of 145 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 11 of 145 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 5 of 145 occurrencesDevonian — about 11 of 145 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 145 occurrences641–631 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences631–621 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences621–612 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences612–602 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences602–593 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences593–583 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences583–574 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences574–564 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences564–554 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences554–545 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences545–535 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences526–516 Mya — about 45 occurrences516–507 Mya — about 65 occurrences507–497 Mya — about 5 occurrences497–487 Mya — about 2 occurrences487–478 Mya — about 3 occurrences478–468 Mya — about 6 occurrences468–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–449 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences449–439 Mya — about 2 occurrences439–430 Mya — about 2 occurrences430–420 Mya — about 4 occurrences420–411 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences411–401 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences401–392 Mya — about 1 occurrence392–382 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences382–372 Mya — about 2 occurrences372–363 Mya — about 4 occurrences363–353 Mya — about 1 occurrence538.8 Mya372.15 Mya641 Mya353 Mya

145 occurrences of Epiphyton on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

145 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

70 formations

Usa — 54.00°N, 90.75°EUsa — 54.23°N, 90.82°EMatoppa — 39.27°N, 8.47°EMatoppa — 39.18°N, 8.55°EMatoppa — 39.35°N, 8.45°EMatoppa — 39.40°N, 8.45°EMatoppa — 39.37°N, 8.52°EEgiin Gol — 50.00°N, 100.00°ESalaany Gol — 46.87°N, 95.80°ESalaany Gol — 47.15°N, 96.90°EBalakhtison — 53.77°N, 93.48°EZwethau — 51.63°N, 13.55°EYunghsien — 25.35°N, 110.10°EYunghsien — 25.33°N, 110.12°EShallow Bay — 49.92°N, 57.82°WIssafen — 30.80°N, 8.20°WIssafen — 30.23°N, 8.87°WIssafen — 29.25°N, 8.68°WSekwi — 63.75°N, 128.80°WSekwi — 63.73°N, 129.05°WTorgashino — 55.97°N, 92.92°EMoorowie — 30.00°S, 135.00°EMoorowie — 30.98°S, 139.20°EVerkhneynyrga — 52.57°N, 85.25°EVerkhneynyrga — 52.17°N, 87.13°EPoleta — 37.72°N, 117.23°WPoleta — 37.42°N, 117.47°WGonnesa — 39.33°N, 8.45°EHeceta — 55.78°N, 133.17°WHeceta — 55.78°N, 133.48°WKrasnoporog — 67.22°N, 87.03°EOsinsky — 59.33°N, 108.45°EOsinsky — 61.67°N, 112.67°ELemdad — 30.80°N, 8.20°WScott Canyon — 40.60°N, 117.10°WWirrealpa Limestone — 31.15°S, 138.92°EWirrealpa Limestone — 31.30°S, 138.90°EWilkawillina Limestone — 31.27°S, 138.88°EAjax Limestone — 30.58°S, 138.32°ESyys — 54.30°N, 90.75°E

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The named rock units Epiphyton has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 46 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Epiphyton and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Epiphyton and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

404 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Epiphyton, 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

74 references

Each of the 145 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. 62 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Epiphyton was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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.

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What may have been alongside itLudloviaceae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bornemann 1886