Bowenia papillosa
No picture of Bowenia papillosa 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 Bowenia papillosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BoweniaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Bowenia papillosa on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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.
Bowenia papillosa and its relatives
EoceneWhere Bowenia papillosa and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Casuarina1 site
- Gleicheniaceae1 site
- Laurophyllum acrodromum1 site
- Laurophyllum acuminatum1 site
- Laurophyllum acutum1 site
- Laurophyllum angulosum1 site
- Laurophyllum arcuatum1 site
- Laurophyllum brochidodromum1 site
- Laurophyllum conspicuum1 site
- Laurophyllum intramarginatum1 site
- Laurophyllum lanceolatum1 site
- Laurophyllum pubescens1 site
- Laurophyllum sinuatum1 site
- Laurophyllum squamatum1 site
- Lepidozamia foveolata1 site
- Menispermaphyllum tomentosum1 site
- Pterostoma anastomosans1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Bowenia papillosa, 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- The Eocene Megafossil Flora of Nerriga. New South Wales, Australia1
- Two New Species of Bowenia Hook. ex Hook. f. from the Eocene of Eastern Australia1
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. 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 Bowenia papillosa 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 Bowenia papillosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bowenia papillosa 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 itBowenia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hill 1978