Gunflintia
No picture of Gunflintia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Gunflintia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProblematicaPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 800 million years on record.
The record covers at least 1800 Mya to 1000 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 2050 Mya to 720 Mya.
20 occurrences of Gunflintia 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
20 occurrencesThese 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
9 formations
- Gunflint Chert Formation4
- Rocknest Formation · Epworth Group3
- Sokoman Formation · Ferriman Group3
- Duck Creek Dolomite Formation · Wyloo Group2
- Amelia Dolomite Formation1
- Pokegama Quartzite Formation · Animikie Group1
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The named rock units Gunflintia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
87 taxa- Huroniospora8 sites
- Eoastrion simplex6 sites
- Animikiea septata3 sites
- Eoastrion bifurcatum3 sites
- Kakabekia umbellata3 sites
- Archaeorestis2 sites
- Archaeorestis schreiberensis2 sites
- Eoastrion2 sites
- Eomycetopsis2 sites
- Huroniospora microreticulata2 sites
- Siphonophycus2 sites
- Anabaenidium sophoroides1 site
- Animikiea1 site
- Archaeoellipsoides dolichos1 site
- Archaeoellipsoides elongatus1 site
- Archaeofavosina naumovae1 site
- Archaeofavosina sinuta1 site
- Archaeonema1 site
- Archaeotrichion1 site
- Baltisphaeridium1 site
- Biocatenoides incrustata1 site
- Brevitrichoides1 site
- Chlorogloeaopsis zairensis1 site
- Corymbococcus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Gunflintia, 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
11 references- Shelf-facies microbiotas from the Odjick and Rocknest formations (Epworth Group; 1.89 Ga), northwestern Canada4
- Microorganisms from the Gunflint Chert4
- Early Proterozoic microfossils and penecontemporaneous quartz cementation in the Sokoman Iron Formation, Canada3
- Micro-organisms from the Bushimay System (late Pre-Cambrian) of Kanshi, Zaire2
- Microfossils in 2000 Ma old cherty stromatolites of the Franceville Group, Gabon1
- Distribution and diagenesis of microfossils from the lower Proterozoic Duck Creek Dolomite, Western Australia1
- Investigation of the procaryotic microfossils from the Gaoyuzhuang Formation, Jixian, north China1
- A Gunflint-type microbiota from the Duck Creek Dolomite, Western Australia1
- Proterozoic microfossils from the Amelia Dolomite, McArthur Basin, Northern Territory1
- Microfossils from a newly discovered Precambrian stromatolitic iron formation in Western Australia1
- Ultrastructure and geological relations of some two-aeon old nostocacean algae from northeastern Minnesota1
Each of the 20 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.
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No picture of Gunflintia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Gunflintia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gunflintia 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 itProblematica through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barghoorn 1965