Ankyropteris
No picture of Ankyropteris was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Ankyropteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CoenopteridalesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 5.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 312.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 330.3 Mya to 306 Mya.
18 occurrences of Ankyropteris on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
18 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Ankyropteris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ankyropteris and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Ankyropteris and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
78 taxa- Sphenophyllum9 sites
- Amyelon radicans8 sites
- Arthropitys8 sites
- Etapteris8 sites
- Lepidocarpon8 sites
- Anachoropteris7 sites
- Botryopteris7 sites
- Bowmanites7 sites
- Calamostachys7 sites
- Cordaites7 sites
- Lepidostrobus7 sites
- Lyginopteris oldhamia7 sites
- Stauropteris oldhamia7 sites
- Stigmaria ficoides7 sites
- Diaphorodendron vasculare6 sites
- Lagenostoma6 sites
- Lagenostoma ovoides6 sites
- Mazocarpon shorense6 sites
- Myeloxylon6 sites
- Psalixochlaena cylindrica6 sites
- Bothrodendron5 sites
- Conostoma5 sites
- Heterangium5 sites
- Lepidophloios5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Ankyropteris, 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
3 references- Coal-ball floras of the Namurian-Westphalian of Europe16
- A Transect through a Clastic-swamp to Peat-swamp Ecotene in the Springfield Coal, Middle Pennsylvanian Age of Indiana, USA1
- Ankyropteris from the Pennsylvanian of Eastern Kentucky1
Each of the 18 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ankyropteris was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Ankyropteris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ankyropteris 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 itCoenopteridales through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stenzel 1889