Sekwia
No picture of Sekwia was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Sekwia 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. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 97 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 635 Mya and 538.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Sekwia 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Sekwia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Aspidella terranovica1 site
- Beltanella1 site
- Beltanelliformis1 site
- Charniodiscus1 site
- Conomedusites1 site
- Ernietta plateauensis1 site
- Helminthoidichnites tenuis1 site
- Kimberella1 site
- Lockeia1 site
- Medusinites1 site
- Palaeophycus tubularis1 site
- Tirasiana1 site
- Torrowangea rosei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Sekwia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
4 references- Additional Ediacaran body fossils of south-central North Carolina1
- Sequence stratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic Infra Krol Formation and Krol Group, Lesser Himalaya, India1
- Ediacaran fossils from the Sekwi Brock Area, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwestern Canada1
- Upper Proterozoic and Cambrian rocks in the Caborca Region, Sonora, Mexico - physical stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, paleocurrent studies, and regional relations1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Sekwia was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Sekwia 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.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Sekwia 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 it
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.