Obruchevella

Obruchevella

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OscillatoriaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyanobacteria

Time the record covers

At least 495 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1000 Mya to 504.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 1200 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 6 of 16 occurrencesOrdovician — about 0 of 16 occurrences1214–1190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1190–1165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1165–1141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1141–1117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1117–1092 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1092–1068 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1068–1043 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1043–1019 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1019–995 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences995–970 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences970–946 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences946–922 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences922–897 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences897–873 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences873–849 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences849–824 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences824–800 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences800–775 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences775–751 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences751–727 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences727–702 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences654–629 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences629–605 Mya — about 2 occurrences605–580 Mya — about 2 occurrences580–556 Mya — about 2 occurrences556–532 Mya — about 2 occurrences532–507 Mya — about 4 occurrences507–483 Mya — about 1 occurrence1000 Mya504.5 Mya1214 Mya483 Mya

16 occurrences of Obruchevella 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

16 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

11 formations

Dengying — 32.98°N, 106.27°EDengying — 32.97°N, 106.25°EKhesen — 46.67°N, 96.17°EYuhucun — 24.71°N, 102.57°ECal Tepe — 37.42°N, 31.85°EParara — 34.70°S, 137.71°EVermilion — 51.10°N, 115.95°WZaris — 24.89°S, 16.33°ENelson Head — 67.62°N, 115.73°WPestrotsvet — 50.92°N, 125.89°EPortfjeld — 82.24°N, 36.22°WAlinya — 28.43°S, 132.39°E

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The named rock units Obruchevella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Obruchevella and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Obruchevella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

157 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Obruchevella, 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

13 references

Each of the 16 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Obruchevella

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Obruchevella 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 itOscillatoriaceae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reitlinger 1948