Korilophyton

Korilophyton is a genus of branching Cambrian acritarchs of presumed algal affinity.

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

Time the record covers

At least 57 million years on record.

The record covers at least 529 Mya to 471.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 469.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 3 of 5 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 5 occurrencesOrdovician638–633 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences633–627 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences627–621 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences621–615 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences615–610 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences610–604 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences604–598 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences598–592 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences592–587 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences587–581 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences581–575 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences575–569 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences569–564 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences564–558 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences558–552 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences552–546 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences546–541 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences541–535 Mya — about 1 occurrence535–529 Mya — about 2 occurrences529–523 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences472–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence529 Mya471.3 Mya638 Mya466 Mya

5 occurrences of Korilophyton 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

5 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

5 formations

Tsagaan Oloom-Lower Bayan Gol — 46.87°N, 96.30°ETolba — 60.80°N, 125.32°EManykay — 71.15°N, 102.67°EPoiga — 59.40°N, 85.67°EVolkhov — 59.82°N, 32.20°E

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

Korilophyton and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Korilophyton and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

42 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Korilophyton, 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 5 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

Media content0

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

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

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Voronova 1976