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Siphonophycus septatum

Hormogoneae

Taxonomy
Tenuofilum septatum was named by Schopf (1968). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is Harvard Univ. 58527; stage coordinates 20.3 x 96.7 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is North of Ross River Tourist Camp, which is in a Tonian peritidal chert in the Bitter Springs Formation of Australia.

It was recombined as Gunflintia septata by Oehler (1977); it was recombined as Siphonophycus septatum by Riedman et al. (2023).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1968Tenuofilum septatum Schopf p. 679 figs. Pl 86, figs 10-12
1977Gunflintia septata Oehler p. 345 figs. 13K-O
1983Tenuofilum septatum Knoll and Calder p. 488 figs. Pl 57, fig 2
1991Tenuofilum septatum Hofmann and Jackson p. 367 figs. 7.1, 7.2
2023Siphonophycus septatum Riedman et al. p. 29 fig. 13E

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RankNameAuthor
Life
Prokaryota
Bacteria
phylumCyanobacteriaStanier 1973
RankNameAuthor
classHormogoneaeThuret 1875
genusSiphonophycus
speciesseptatum()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Siphonophycus septatum Schopf 1968
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Environment: hypersaline, marine, brackish, freshwaterp
Locomotion: stationaryp
Diet: "photoautotroph"p
Created: 2007-12-04 09:01:31
Modified: 2007-12-04 11:01:31
Source: p = phylum
Reference: Vachard and Aretz 2004

Age range: base of the Statherian to the top of the Ediacaran or 1800.00000 to 538.80000 Ma

Collections (16 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Statherian1800.0 - 1600.0Australia (Northern Territory) Gunflintia septata (227572 227574 227593) Siphonophycus septatum (232734 232740)
Stenian1200.0 - 1000.0Canada (Nunavut) Siphonophycus septatum (221355) Tenuofilum septatum (227548)
Tonian1000.0 - 720.0Svalbard and Jan Mayen Tenuofilum septatum (227776)
Tonian1000.0 - 720.0Greenland Tenuofilum septatum (227746 227747 227749 227750)
Tonian1000.0 - 720.0Australia (Northern Territory) Tenuofilum septatum (type locality: 227452 227538)
Ediacaran635.0 - 538.8Estonia (Merikula) Siphonophycus septatum (221270)
Ediacaran635.0 - 538.8Estonia (Ida-Viru) Siphonophycus septatum (221354)