Oscillatoriopsis

Searched as Oscillatoriopsis longa. The Paleobiology Database treats Oscillatoriopsis as the accepted name.

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.

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 1061 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1600 Mya to 538.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 1800 Mya to 525.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 5 occurrences1825–1781 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1781–1737 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1737–1693 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1693–1649 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1649–1605 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1605–1560 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1560–1516 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1516–1472 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1472–1428 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1428–1384 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences677–633 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences633–588 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences588–544 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences544–500 Mya — about 1 occurrence1600 Mya538.8 Mya1825 Mya500 Mya

5 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

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

Yurtus — 40.52°N, 79.05°EKotlin — 59.09°N, 27.17°EGreyson — 46.67°N, 110.88°WChangzhougou — 40.63°N, 115.45°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.

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

5 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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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 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itOscillatoriaceae through timeThe world it lived on

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