Eupoikilofusa

No picture of Eupoikilofusa was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Eupoikilofusa 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. Wikipedia and 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
AcritarchaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Acritarcha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Acritarcha

Time the record covers

At least 556 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1000 Mya to 443.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 1200 Mya to 438.6 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 10 occurrencesOrdovician — about 4 of 10 occurrencesSilurian — about 5 of 10 occurrences1215–1189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1189–1162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1162–1136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1136–1110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1110–1083 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1083–1057 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1057–1030 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1030–1004 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1004–978 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences503–476 Mya — about 2 occurrences476–450 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences450–423 Mya — about 6 occurrences1000 Mya443.1 Mya1215 Mya423 Mya

10 occurrences of Eupoikilofusa 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

10 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

4 formations

Santed — 41.00°N, 1.00°WEllis Bay — 49.50°N, 63.00°WBorrachon — 41.00°N, 1.00°WVictor Bay — 72.33°N, 79.78°W

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The named rock units Eupoikilofusa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

74 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Eupoikilofusa, 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

4 references

Each of the 10 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

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No picture of Eupoikilofusa was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Eupoikilofusa 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.

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

No 3D scan of Eupoikilofusa 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itAcritarcha through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cramer 1970