Aspidiopsis
No picture of Aspidiopsis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Aspidiopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LepidodendraceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 307.4 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 318.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
3 occurrences of Aspidiopsis 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
3 occurrences- Carboniferous33%
- Permian67%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Aspidiopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aspidiopsis and its relatives
PermianWhere Aspidiopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Cordaites3 sites
- Annularia2 sites
- Araucarites2 sites
- Diplothmema2 sites
- Gigantopteris2 sites
- Gomphostrobus2 sites
- Neuropteris2 sites
- Odontopteris2 sites
- Pecopteris2 sites
- Poacordaites2 sites
- Sigillaria2 sites
- Sphenophyllum2 sites
- Taeniopteris2 sites
- Walchia2 sites
- Agaeoleptoptera uniotempla1 site
- Alethopteris valida1 site
- Anniedarwinia alabamensis1 site
- Aphlebia1 site
- Arborichnus repetita1 site
- Arenicolites longistriatus1 site
- Artisia1 site
- Asterophyllites charaeformis1 site
- Attenosaurus subulensis1 site
- Calamites goepperti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Aspidiopsis, 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- Fossil plants from the Union Chapel Mine, Alabama1
- A Permian Discinites cone1
- The characters of the fossil plant Gigantopteris Schenk and its occurrence in North America1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Aspidiopsis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Aspidiopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aspidiopsis 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 itLepidodendraceae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Potonie 1893