Longfengshania

No picture of Longfengshania was found. iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Longfengshania itself, so it was not used. GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Longfengshania 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LongfengshaniaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Algae

Time the record covers

At least 85 million years on record.

The record covers at least 720 Mya to 635 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 1000 Mya to 538.8 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 7 occurrences1009–993 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences993–977 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences977–961 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences961–945 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences945–929 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences929–913 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences913–897 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences897–881 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences881–865 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences865–849 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences849–833 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences833–817 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences817–801 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences801–785 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences785–769 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences769–753 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences753–737 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences737–721 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences721–705 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences641–626 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences626–610 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences610–594 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences594–578 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences578–562 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences562–546 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences546–530 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences720 Mya635 Mya1009 Mya530 Mya

7 occurrences of Longfengshania 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

7 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

3 formations

Dengying — 24.47°N, 102.77°EShiwangzhuang — 36.51°N, 119.13°EJiuliqiao — 36.74°N, 117.19°E

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

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Longfengshania, 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 7 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 Longfengshania was found. iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Longfengshania itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Longfengshania 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.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itLongfengshaniaceae through time

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Du 1982