Oscillatoriopsis

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

No picture of Oscillatoriopsis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 most 400 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1800 Mya and 1400 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

1808–1794 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1794–1780 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1780–1766 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1766–1753 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1753–1739 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1739–1725 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1725–1711 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1711–1697 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1697–1683 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1683–1669 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1669–1655 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1655–1642 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1642–1628 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1628–1614 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1614–1600 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1600–1586 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1586–1572 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1572–1558 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1558–1545 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1545–1531 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1531–1517 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1517–1503 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1503–1489 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1489–1475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1475–1461 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1461–1447 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1447–1434 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1434–1420 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1420–1406 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1406–1392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1808 Mya1392 Mya

1 occurrence 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

1 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

1 formation

Dahongyu — 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 time

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