Pseudofossil

No picture of Pseudofossil was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Pseudofossil firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

Time the record covers

At least 3599 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3600 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 4031 Mya to 0 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 28 occurrencesOrdovician — about 0 of 28 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 28 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 28 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 28 occurrencesPermian — about 1 of 28 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 28 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 28 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 28 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 28 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 28 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 28 occurrences4112–3975 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3975–3838 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3838–3700 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3700–3563 Mya — about 1 occurrence3563–3426 Mya — about 3 occurrences3426–3289 Mya — about 3 occurrences3289–3152 Mya — about 2 occurrences1645–1508 Mya — about 1 occurrence1508–1371 Mya — about 2 occurrences685–548 Mya — about 5 occurrences548–411 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences274–137 Mya — about 4 occurrences137–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences3600 Mya11.7 ka4112 Mya0 Mya

28 occurrences of Pseudofossil on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

28 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

10 formations

Apex Chert — 21.19°S, 119.71°EMillingport — 35.36°N, 80.35°WMillingport — 35.17°N, 80.40°WAppekunny — 48.82°N, 113.64°WAppekunny — 48.72°N, 113.53°WAppekunny — 48.49°N, 113.38°WPortland — 42.21°N, 72.60°WPortland — 42.29°N, 72.57°WZhengmuguan — 38.70°N, 105.98°ELiuchapo — 26.37°N, 107.88°EMonterey — 33.71°N, 118.29°WSolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°ESimiti — 7.18°N, 74.02°WIsua — 65.21°N, 49.75°W

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The named rock units Pseudofossil has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudofossil and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Pseudofossil and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

113 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Pseudofossil, 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

16 references

Each of the 28 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. 4 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

3D model

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No picture of Pseudofossil was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Pseudofossil firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.