Foliophycus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhodophyceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyceae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhodophyceae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhodophyceae
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,marinePBDB, for Rhodophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 315.2 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 2 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315.2 Mya303.7 Mya323.9 Mya298.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Foliophycus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

Hassi Kerma — 31.60°N, 2.22°WOread Limestone — 41.16°N, 94.90°W

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

Foliophycus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Foliophycus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Foliophycus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Foliophycus 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 itRhodophyceae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Johnson 1960