Calathopteris heterophylla
No picture of Calathopteris heterophylla was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Calathopteris heterophylla 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. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 36 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Calathopteris heterophylla 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Garlton Hills Volcanics Formation · Lower Lothian Calciferous Sandstone Measures (Series) Group1
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The named rock units Calathopteris heterophylla has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Calathopteris heterophylla and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Calathopteris heterophylla and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Amyelon2 sites
- Bilignea solida2 sites
- Buteoxylon gordonianum2 sites
- Calathospermum2 sites
- Eosperma oxroadense2 sites
- Lyginorachis2 sites
- Salpingostoma dasu2 sites
- Tantallosperma setigera2 sites
- Telangium2 sites
- Tetrastichia2 sites
- Triradioxylon primaevum2 sites
- cf. Melissiotheca sp.1 site
- Eristophyton1 site
- Eristophyton beinertianum1 site
- Genomosperma1 site
- Gymnospermopsida1 site
- Hydrasperma1 site
- Hydrasperma tenuis1 site
- Lepidodendron1 site
- Lycopsida1 site
- Lyginorachis papilio1 site
- Oxroadia gracilis1 site
- Oxroadopteris parvus1 site
- Paurodendron1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Calathopteris heterophylla, 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
2 references- A reappraisal of the Dinantian floras at Oxroad Bay, East Lothian, Scotland. 1. Floristics and the development of whole-plant concepts1
- Distribution of anatomically-preserved floras in the Lower Carboniferous in Western Europe1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Calathopteris heterophylla was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Calathopteris heterophylla 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.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Calathopteris heterophylla was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.