Oscillatoriaceae

The Oscillatoriaceae are a family of cyanobacteria.

Oscillatoriaceae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 1341 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1800 Mya to 458.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 2050 Mya to 452.8 Mya.

Cambrian — about 23 of 169 occurrencesOrdovician — about 1 of 169 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 169 occurrences2082–2027 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2027–1971 Mya — about 2 occurrences1971–1916 Mya — about 2 occurrences1916–1860 Mya — about 2 occurrences1860–1805 Mya — about 2 occurrences1805–1750 Mya — about 5 occurrences1750–1694 Mya — about 5 occurrences1694–1639 Mya — about 5 occurrences1639–1584 Mya — about 6 occurrences1584–1528 Mya — about 8 occurrences1528–1473 Mya — about 8 occurrences1473–1418 Mya — about 8 occurrences1418–1362 Mya — about 4 occurrences1362–1307 Mya — about 2 occurrences1307–1251 Mya — about 2 occurrences1251–1196 Mya — about 2 occurrences1196–1141 Mya — about 2 occurrences1141–1085 Mya — about 2 occurrences1085–1030 Mya — about 2 occurrences1030–975 Mya — about 7 occurrences975–919 Mya — about 13 occurrences919–864 Mya — about 13 occurrences864–808 Mya — about 13 occurrences808–753 Mya — about 13 occurrences753–698 Mya — about 8 occurrences698–642 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences642–587 Mya — about 5 occurrences587–532 Mya — about 15 occurrences532–476 Mya — about 13 occurrences476–421 Mya — about 1 occurrence1800 Mya458.2 Mya2082 Mya421 Mya

169 occurrences of Oscillatoriaceae on record, most of them in the Cambrian. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

169 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

42 formations

Bitter Springs — 23.58°S, 134.49°EBitter Springs — 23.79°S, 133.07°EYuhucun — 24.71°N, 102.57°EKotuikan — 70.60°N, 104.60°EGaoyuzhuang — 40.65°N, 115.43°EGaoyuzhuang — 40.16°N, 117.56°ECraggy Dolomite — 65.26°N, 140.94°WKushalgarh — 27.89°N, 76.38°EKendall River — 67.54°N, 117.78°WSuket Shale — 24.45°N, 75.45°ENelson Head — 67.62°N, 115.73°WRocknest — 65.70°N, 113.80°WRocknest — 66.18°N, 113.65°WRocknest — 67.55°N, 113.63°WDengying — 32.98°N, 106.27°EDengying — 30.79°N, 111.05°EDengying — 32.97°N, 106.25°EBarney Creek — 16.43°S, 136.11°EBarney Creek — 16.43°S, 136.04°ENewland — 46.88°N, 110.68°WYurtus — 40.52°N, 79.05°EKhesen — 46.67°N, 96.17°EKotlin — 59.09°N, 27.17°EBalbirini Dolomite — 16.75°S, 135.74°EDuck Creek Dolomite — 22.47°S, 116.51°EWumishan — 40.28°N, 116.20°ESokoman — 54.74°N, 66.92°WSokoman — 56.52°N, 68.85°WMin'yar — 53.84°N, 57.16°EAlinya — 28.43°S, 132.39°ECal Tepe — 37.42°N, 31.85°EParara — 34.70°S, 137.71°E

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The named rock units Oscillatoriaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oscillatoriaceae and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Oscillatoriaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

449 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Oscillatoriaceae, 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

44 references

Each of the 169 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. 32 further references are 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 Oscillatoriaceae

Credit
Kristian Peters http://www.korseby.net/outer/flora/algae/index.html
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Oscillatoriaceae 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1821