Sphaerophycus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 800 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1800 Mya to 1000 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 2050 Mya to 720 Mya.

2077–2030 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2030–1984 Mya — about 1 occurrence1984–1938 Mya — about 1 occurrence1938–1892 Mya — about 1 occurrence1892–1846 Mya — about 1 occurrence1846–1800 Mya — about 1 occurrence1800–1754 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1754–1708 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1708–1662 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1662–1616 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1616–1569 Mya — about 1 occurrence1569–1523 Mya — about 1 occurrence1523–1477 Mya — about 1 occurrence1477–1431 Mya — about 1 occurrence1431–1385 Mya — about 1 occurrence1385–1339 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1339–1293 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1293–1247 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1247–1201 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1201–1154 Mya — about 2 occurrences1154–1108 Mya — about 2 occurrences1108–1062 Mya — about 2 occurrences1062–1016 Mya — about 2 occurrences1016–970 Mya — about 3 occurrences970–924 Mya — about 3 occurrences924–878 Mya — about 3 occurrences878–832 Mya — about 3 occurrences832–786 Mya — about 3 occurrences786–740 Mya — about 3 occurrences740–693 Mya — about 1 occurrence1800 Mya1000 Mya2077 Mya693 Mya

47 occurrences of Sphaerophycus 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

47 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

17 formations

Kasegalik — 56.49°N, 79.51°WKendall River — 67.54°N, 117.78°WVictor Bay — 73.31°N, 80.47°WVictor Bay — 72.33°N, 79.78°WAngmaat — 72.27°N, 79.82°WAngmaat — 72.24°N, 79.49°WAngmaat — 72.13°N, 79.40°WBalbirini Dolomite — 16.75°S, 135.74°EBalbirini Dolomite — 16.75°S, 135.74°EMcLeary — 56.54°N, 79.24°WBitter Springs — 23.58°S, 134.49°EBitter Springs — 23.79°S, 133.07°ECraggy Dolomite — 65.26°N, 140.94°WNanisivik — 72.76°N, 83.56°WNanisivik — 72.67°N, 82.03°WAmelia Dolomite — 16.03°S, 135.64°ERocknest — 65.70°N, 113.80°WRocknest — 67.55°N, 113.63°WYusmastakh — 70.56°N, 104.32°EKotuikan — 70.60°N, 104.60°EBarney Creek — 16.43°S, 136.03°EEast River — 67.34°N, 118.13°WWumishan — 40.28°N, 116.20°EMin'yar — 53.84°N, 57.16°E

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The named rock units Sphaerophycus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

185 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Sphaerophycus, 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

18 references

Each of the 47 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. 6 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 content0

No picture of Sphaerophycus 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 Sphaerophycus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sphaerophycus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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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What may have been alongside itChroococcaceae through time

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