Arthropitys

Arthropitys is an extinct genus of calamitacean equisetale. The petrified fossils of Arthropitys bistriata, the type species, can be found in the Leukersdorf Formation, Chemnitz petrified forest, Chemnitz, Germany. The genus existed from the Carboniferous (Bashkirian) until the Early Triassic (Olenekian).

Arthropitys

Friedrich Gahlbeck · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · 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
CalamitaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 64 million years on record.

The record covers at least 316.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 247 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 35 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 32 of 35 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 35 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 2 of 35 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 35 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–353 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences353–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–334 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences334–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–326 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences326–322 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences322–318 Mya — about 3 occurrences318–315 Mya — about 14 occurrences315–311 Mya — about 4 occurrences311–307 Mya — about 6 occurrences307–303 Mya — about 2 occurrences303–299 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences299–295 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences295–291 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences291–287 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences287–284 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences284–280 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences280–276 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences276–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–249 Mya — about 1 occurrence249–245 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences316.9 Mya251.902 Mya361 Mya245 Mya

35 occurrences of Arthropitys 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

35 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

1 formation

Carbondale — 38.18°N, 87.33°W

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The named rock units Arthropitys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Arthropitys and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Arthropitys and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

145 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Arthropitys, 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

6 references

Each of the 35 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

Media content1

Picture of Arthropitys

Credit
Friedrich Gahlbeck
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Arthropitys 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.

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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What may have been alongside itCalamitaceae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goeppert 1864