Arthroxylon
No picture of Arthroxylon was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Arthroxylon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CalamitalesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 318.7 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 330.3 Mya to 290.1 Mya.
6 occurrences of Arthroxylon 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
6 occurrences- Carboniferous83%
- Permian17%
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 Arthroxylon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Arthroxylon and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Arthroxylon and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Botryopteris4 sites
- Calamostachys4 sites
- Cordaites4 sites
- Pachytesta4 sites
- Achlamydocarpon3 sites
- Anachoropteris3 sites
- Arthropitys3 sites
- Astromyelon3 sites
- Corynepteris3 sites
- Diaphorodendron vasculare3 sites
- Lagenostoma3 sites
- Lagenostoma ovoides3 sites
- Sphenophyllum3 sites
- Amyelon radicans2 sites
- Ankyropteris2 sites
- Bothrodendron2 sites
- Bowmanites2 sites
- Calamocarpon insignis2 sites
- Conostoma2 sites
- Etapteris2 sites
- Heterangium2 sites
- Lepidocarpon2 sites
- Lepidodendron obovatum2 sites
- Lepidophloios2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Arthroxylon, 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 Europe3
- Pennsylvanian-Age Calamitean Cones, Elater-Bearing Spores, and Associated Vegetative Organs2
- An Early Permian plant assemblage from the Taiyuan Formation of northern China with compression/impression and permineralized preservation1
Each of the 6 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 Arthroxylon was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Arthroxylon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCalamitales through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reed 1952