Bathurstia sp.

Bathurstia was a genus of scrambling Silu-Devonian land plant with isotomously branching axes that grew to heights of 30 cm. It is aligned with the Zosterophylls, and produced Calamospora-type spores.

No picture of Bathurstia sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Bathurstia 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 least 6.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 413.02 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 19 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 18 of 19 occurrencesDevonian427–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 4 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 8 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 4 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419.62 Mya413.02 Mya427.4 Mya392.8 Mya

19 occurrences of Bathurstia 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

19 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

2 formations

Bathurst Island — 75.82°N, 98.41°WBathurst Island — 76.19°N, 98.23°WBathurst Island — 76.00°N, 98.00°WBathurst Island — 76.92°N, 99.42°WBathurst Island — 75.84°N, 98.62°WBathurst Island Beds — 75.80°N, 98.40°W

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The named rock units Bathurstia sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Bathurstia sp. and its relatives

Devonian

Where Bathurstia sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

8 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Bathurstia 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

Each of the 19 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 Bathurstia sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Bathurstia 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 Bathurstia 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.