Sphaerophycus medium

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 400 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1400 Mya to 1000 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 1600 Mya to 720 Mya.

1618–1587 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1587–1557 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1557–1526 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1526–1496 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1496–1465 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1465–1435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1435–1404 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1404–1374 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1374–1343 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1343–1313 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1313–1282 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1282–1252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1252–1221 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1221–1191 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1191–1160 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1160–1129 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1129–1099 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1099–1068 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1068–1038 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1038–1007 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1007–977 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences977–946 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences946–916 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences916–885 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences885–855 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences855–824 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences824–794 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences794–763 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences763–733 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences733–702 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1400 Mya1000 Mya1618 Mya702 Mya

9 occurrences of Sphaerophycus medium 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

9 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

Victor Bay — 73.31°N, 80.47°WVictor Bay — 72.33°N, 79.78°WYusmastakh — 70.56°N, 104.32°EKotuikan — 70.60°N, 104.60°EKendall River — 67.54°N, 117.78°WWumishan — 40.28°N, 116.20°EMin'yar — 53.84°N, 57.16°E

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The named rock units Sphaerophycus medium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

55 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Sphaerophycus medium, 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

6 references

Each of the 9 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Sphaerophycus medium 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 itSphaerophycus through time

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Horodyski and Donaldson 1980