Palaeoanacystis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChlorococcaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Chlorophyta
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Chlorophyta
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Chlorophyta
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Chlorophyta
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.
32 occurrences of Palaeoanacystis 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
32 occurrences- Cambrian3%
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
13 formations
- Balbirini Dolomite Formation · Nathan Group5
- Craggy Dolomite Formation · Fifteenmile Group4
- Suket Shale Formation · Semri Group4
- McLeary Formation · Belcher Group2
- Bitter Springs Formation2
- Rocknest Formation · Epworth Group2
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The named rock units Palaeoanacystis 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
225 taxa- Siphonophycus robustum10 sites
- Sphaerophycus parvum9 sites
- Myxococcoides minor7 sites
- Eoentophysalis belcherensis6 sites
- Glenobotrydion aenigmatis6 sites
- Gloeodiniopsis lamellosa6 sites
- Balbiriniella praestans4 sites
- Filiconstrictosus diminutus4 sites
- Heliconema australiensis4 sites
- Nanococcus vulgaris4 sites
- Oscillatoriopsis majesticum4 sites
- Palaeolyngbya barghoorniana4 sites
- Calyptothrix annulata3 sites
- Eomycetopsis3 sites
- Myxococcoides cantabrigiensis3 sites
- Myxococcoides cracens3 sites
- Oscillatoriopsis obtusa3 sites
- Siphonophycus kestron3 sites
- Siphonophycus septatum3 sites
- Tetraphycus major3 sites
- Altarmilla multistriata2 sites
- Archaeotrichion contortum2 sites
- Archeoxybaphon serratacapacis2 sites
- Biocatenoides rhabdos2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Palaeoanacystis, 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
14 references- Organic-walled microfossils from earliest Cambrian or latest Proterozoic Tindir Group rocks, northwest Canada9
- Microflora of the middle Proterozoic Balbirini Dolomite (McArthur Group) of Australia5
- Microbiota from the Suket Shales, Ramapura, Vindhyan System (late Pre-Cambrian), Madhya Pradesh4
- Shelf-facies microfossils from the Uluksan Group (Proterozoic Bylot Supergroup), Baffin Island, Canada2
- Shelf-facies microbiotas from the Odjick and Rocknest formations (Epworth Group; 1.89 Ga), northwestern Canada2
- Precambrian microflora, Belcher Islands, Canada: significance and systematics2
- Organic-walled microfossils from the Ganurgarh Shale Formation (Bhander Group, Vindhyan Supergroup), Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh, India1
- Microbiota from the Kushalgarh Formation, Delhi Supergroup, India1
- The Sinian microfossils from Jinning, Yunnan, south west China1
- Proterozoic stromatolite microfloras of the Gaoyuzhuang Formation (Early Sinian: Riphean), Hebei, China1
- Proterozoic microfossils from the Amelia Dolomite, McArthur Basin, Northern Territory1
- Micro-organisms from the Bushimay System (late Pre-Cambrian) of Kanshi, Zaire1
Each of the 32 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. 2 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
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No picture of Palaeoanacystis 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 Palaeoanacystis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palaeoanacystis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChlorococcaceae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schopf 1968