Archeopteris sp.
No picture of Archeopteris sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Archeopteris sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 84 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Archeopteris sp. on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
2 occurrences- Devonian50%
- Carboniferous50%
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 Archeopteris sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Archeopteris sp. and its relatives
DevonianWhere Archeopteris sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Adiantites1 site
- Alcicornopteris1 site
- Annularia1 site
- Archeopteris latifolia1 site
- Calamites1 site
- Callipteridium1 site
- Cordaites1 site
- Eremopteris1 site
- Lepdidodendropsis sp.1 site
- Lepidodendron1 site
- Macrostachya1 site
- Neuralethopteris biformis1 site
- Neuralethopteris pocahontas1 site
- Neuropteris1 site
- Pecopteris1 site
- Pecopteris (Alethopteris)1 site
- Rhodea1 site
- Sigillaria1 site
- Sphenopteris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Archeopteris sp., and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Guide to the Horse Shoe curve Section between Altoona and Gallitzin, Central Pennsylvania1
- Contributions to the Paleontology of Northwest Georgia1
Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Archeopteris sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Archeopteris sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Archeopteris sp. 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 itFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.