Annularia

Annularia is a form taxon, applied to fossil foliage belonging to extinct plants of the genus Calamites in the order Equisetales.

Annularia

Woudloper · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EquisetalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 71 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 247 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 399 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 123 of 399 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 275 of 399 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 399 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 399 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 2 occurrences357–353 Mya — about 5 occurrences353–349 Mya — about 5 occurrences349–346 Mya — about 5 occurrences346–342 Mya — about 5 occurrences342–338 Mya — about 5 occurrences338–334 Mya — about 5 occurrences334–330 Mya — about 5 occurrences330–326 Mya — about 5 occurrences326–322 Mya — about 6 occurrences322–318 Mya — about 8 occurrences318–315 Mya — about 11 occurrences315–311 Mya — about 11 occurrences311–307 Mya — about 15 occurrences307–303 Mya — about 14 occurrences303–299 Mya — about 18 occurrences299–295 Mya — about 29 occurrences295–291 Mya — about 29 occurrences291–287 Mya — about 30 occurrences287–284 Mya — about 31 occurrences284–280 Mya — about 14 occurrences280–276 Mya — about 13 occurrences276–272 Mya — about 21 occurrences272–268 Mya — about 26 occurrences268–264 Mya — about 24 occurrences264–260 Mya — about 21 occurrences260–256 Mya — about 16 occurrences256–253 Mya — about 17 occurrences253–249 Mya — about 4 occurrences249–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences323.4 Mya251.902 Mya361 Mya245 Mya

399 occurrences of Annularia on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

399 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

116 formations

Pottsville — 33.82°N, 87.42°WPottsville — 33.00°N, 87.00°WShanxi — 39.90°N, 111.80°EShanxi — 39.60°N, 111.00°EShanxi — 38.00°N, 114.00°EShanxi — 41.80°N, 126.50°EShanxi — 35.20°N, 109.90°EShanxi — 34.20°N, 113.50°EShanxi — 38.80°N, 105.60°EShanxi — 41.20°N, 123.80°EShanxi — 39.40°N, 121.80°EShanxi — 40.70°N, 120.80°EShanxi — 38.80°N, 99.60°EShanxi — 38.50°N, 102.20°EShanxi — 38.20°N, 106.40°EShanxi — 39.40°N, 111.00°EManebacher — 50.80°N, 10.60°ETaiyuan — 37.50°N, 105.20°ETaiyuan — 41.80°N, 126.50°ETaiyuan — 40.00°N, 116.20°ETaiyuan — 39.70°N, 106.80°ETaiyuan — 38.80°N, 99.60°ETaiyuan — 38.80°N, 105.60°ETaiyuan — 38.20°N, 106.40°ELawrence Shale — 38.83°N, 95.38°WLawrence Shale — 38.00°N, 95.00°WLawrence Shale — 39.00°N, 95.00°WLawrence Shale — 38.85°N, 95.27°WLawrence Shale — 38.55°N, 95.43°WLawrence Shale — 38.77°N, 95.18°WGoldlauterer — 50.80°N, 10.60°EMahoning — 40.70°N, 80.65°WWild Cow — 34.75°N, 106.25°WWild Cow — 34.95°N, 106.30°WDrywood — 38.00°N, 93.00°WBrazil — 39.13°N, 87.02°WGehrener — 50.80°N, 10.60°ETongzhiyan — 25.10°N, 113.60°ETongzhiyan — 22.20°N, 112.90°EBreathitt — 37.08°N, 83.70°WBelle Plains — 30.27°N, 97.74°WBelle Plains — 33.63°N, 98.95°WBelle Plains — 32.50°N, 99.20°WSupai — 34.20°N, 111.00°WAssise de Kusel — 48.40°N, 7.30°EIshanovskaya Suite — 54.50°N, 83.80°EIshanovskaya Suite — 54.40°N, 83.30°EKemerovskaya Suite — 54.50°N, 83.80°EKemerovskaya Suite — 54.40°N, 83.30°EPetersburg — 38.10°N, 87.18°WShelburn — 39.28°N, 87.53°WMinto — 46.08°N, 66.08°WCrab Orchard Mountains — 34.00°N, 85.00°WBoggy — 35.50°N, 95.49°WSan Tirso — 43.30°N, 5.70°W

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The named rock units Annularia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 92 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 155 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Annularia and its relatives

Permian

Where Annularia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

595 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 246 sites for Annularia, and this reads 240 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

111 references

Each of the 399 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. 99 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 content2

Picture of Annularia

Credit
Woudloper
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sternberg 1821