Oscillatoriopsis

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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 1261 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1800 Mya to 538.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 2050 Mya to 525.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 5 of 40 occurrences2080–2028 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2028–1975 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1975–1922 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1922–1869 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1869–1816 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1816–1763 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1763–1711 Mya — about 1 occurrence1711–1658 Mya — about 1 occurrence1658–1605 Mya — about 1 occurrence1605–1552 Mya — about 3 occurrences1552–1499 Mya — about 3 occurrences1499–1446 Mya — about 3 occurrences1446–1393 Mya — about 3 occurrences1393–1341 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1341–1288 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1288–1235 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1235–1182 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1182–1129 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1129–1076 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1076–1024 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1024–971 Mya — about 1 occurrence971–918 Mya — about 2 occurrences918–865 Mya — about 2 occurrences865–812 Mya — about 2 occurrences812–759 Mya — about 2 occurrences759–706 Mya — about 1 occurrence654–601 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences601–548 Mya — about 1 occurrence548–495 Mya — about 5 occurrences1800 Mya538.8 Mya2080 Mya495 Mya

40 occurrences of Oscillatoriopsis 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

40 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

18 formations

Gaoyuzhuang — 40.16°N, 117.56°EKotuikan — 70.60°N, 104.60°EYuhucun — 24.71°N, 102.57°EKendall River — 67.54°N, 117.78°WNelson Head — 67.62°N, 115.73°WBitter Springs — 23.58°S, 134.49°EBitter Springs — 23.79°S, 133.07°ECraggy Dolomite — 65.26°N, 140.94°WDuck Creek Dolomite — 22.47°S, 116.51°EYurtus — 40.52°N, 79.05°EKotlin — 59.09°N, 27.17°EBarney Creek — 16.43°S, 136.11°EWumishan — 40.28°N, 116.20°ESuket Shale — 24.45°N, 75.45°EKushalgarh — 27.89°N, 76.38°EGreyson — 46.67°N, 110.88°WBlue Hole — 17.09°S, 130.38°EDengying — 30.79°N, 111.05°EDahongyu — 40.00°N, 117.00°E

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The named rock units Oscillatoriopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

238 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Oscillatoriopsis, 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

19 references

Each of the 40 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. 7 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 content0

No picture of Oscillatoriopsis 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 Oscillatoriopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Oscillatoriopsis 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.

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 timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schopf 1968