Archaeocalamites
No picture of Archaeocalamites was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Archaeocalamites itself, so it was not used. 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 Archaeocalamites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SphenopsidaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
22 occurrences of Archaeocalamites 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
22 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
9 formations
- Pettycur Volcanic Formation · Upper Oil Shale Group2
- Gund Formation · Po Group2
- Clore Formation · Chester Group1
- Soapstone Formation1
- Poti Formation1
- Wardie Shale Formation · Lower Oil Shale Group1
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The named rock units Archaeocalamites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Archaeocalamites and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Archaeocalamites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
137 taxa- Lepidodendron11 sites
- Botryopteris5 sites
- Diplolabis5 sites
- Lepidodendropsis5 sites
- Sphenopteridium5 sites
- Stigmaria ficoides5 sites
- Bensonites fusiformis4 sites
- Heterangium4 sites
- Lepidostrobus4 sites
- Metaclepsydropsis duplex4 sites
- Paralycopodites4 sites
- Rhacopteris4 sites
- Sphenopteris4 sites
- Stauropteris4 sites
- Pothocites3 sites
- Spathulopteris3 sites
- Adiantites2 sites
- Amyelon2 sites
- Aneimites2 sites
- Archaeosigillaria2 sites
- Bythotrepis plumosa2 sites
- Calathiops2 sites
- Carpolithes2 sites
- Cheirostrobus pettycurensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Archaeocalamites, 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
8 references- Distribution of anatomically-preserved floras in the Lower Carboniferous in Western Europe6
- Palaeozoic Palaeobotany of Great Britain4
- The Sedimentology, Palaeoecology and Preservation of the Lower Carboniferous Plant Deposits at Pettycur, Fife, Scotland4
- A Pre-Glacial, Warm-Temperate Floral Belt in Gondwana (Late Visean, Early Carboniferous)3
- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 2: Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Megafossils2
- Distribution of Fossil Plant Taxa in the Upper Mississippian and Lower Pennsylvanian of the Illinois Basin1
- A Flora from the Chester Series (Upper Mississippian) of Southern Illinois1
- A Mississippian flora from northeastern Utah and its faunal and stratigraphic relation1
Each of the 22 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
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No picture of Archaeocalamites was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Archaeocalamites itself, so it was not used.
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 Archaeocalamites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Archaeocalamites 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSphenopsida through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stur 1875