Rivularia

Rivularia is a genus of cyanobacteria of the family Rivulariaceae.

Rivularia

Harvey, William H. (William Henry), 1811-1866 · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RivulariaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyanobacteria

Time the record covers

At least 323 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 448.8 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 21 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 21 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 21 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 21 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 21 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 21 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 21 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 21 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 21 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 21 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 21 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 21 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous456–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence374–362 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences362–351 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–234 Mya — about 2 occurrences234–223 Mya — about 4 occurrences223–211 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences211–200 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–141 Mya — about 1 occurrence141–130 Mya — about 3 occurrences130–118 Mya — about 6 occurrences118–106 Mya — about 2 occurrences445.2 Mya121.4 Mya456 Mya106 Mya

21 occurrences of Rivularia on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

21 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

6 formations

Jabal Wasa — 24.73°N, 55.87°EVarciorog — 46.95°N, 22.28°EVarciorog — 46.92°N, 22.30°ELärchberg — 47.62°N, 12.67°ELapos — 46.95°N, 25.90°EYunghsien — 25.33°N, 110.12°EDaduhe — 29.35°N, 102.72°E

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The named rock units Rivularia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rivularia and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Rivularia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

78 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Rivularia, 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

9 references

Each of the 21 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. 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

Picture of Rivularia

Credit
Harvey, William H. (William Henry), 1811-1866
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rivularia 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itRivulariaceae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agardh 1886