Callixylon
No picture of Callixylon was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Callixylon itself, so it was not used. 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 Callixylon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CordaitalesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 358.86 Mya.
36 occurrences of Callixylon 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
36 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
20 formations
- New Albany Shale Formation4
- Genundewa Limestone Formation · Genessee Group3
- Katsberg Formation · Sonyea Group3
- Hampshire Formation · Conneaut Group3
- Yahatinda Formation2
- Oneonta Formation · Genesee Group2
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The named rock units Callixylon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Callixylon and its relatives
DevonianWhere Callixylon and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
72 taxa- Archaeopteris15 sites
- Euphyllophytina6 sites
- Sporangites6 sites
- Archaeopteris hibernica5 sites
- Archaeopitys eastmanii3 sites
- Cladoxylon3 sites
- Kalymma3 sites
- Lepidodendron3 sites
- Lepidostrobus3 sites
- Lycopsida3 sites
- Rhacophyton3 sites
- Arnoldella minuta2 sites
- Chonetes2 sites
- Clepsydropsis2 sites
- Conodonta2 sites
- Lopholasma2 sites
- Manticoceras2 sites
- Ostracoda2 sites
- Periastron2 sites
- Periastron reticulatum2 sites
- Siderella scotti2 sites
- Sidetes2 sites
- Straparollus hecale2 sites
- Straparollus rudis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Callixylon, 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
18 references- Archaeopteris macilenta, Anatomy and Morphology of its Fronds5
- Geology, Floristics and Paleoecology of Late Devonian Coal Swamps from Appalachian Laurentia (U.S.A.)4
- Preliminary Account of the New Albany Shale Flora4
- SUNY-Binghamton Paleobiology Collection3
- Ontogeny of Progymnosperms. II. Shoots of Upper Devonian Archaeopteridales3
- Observations On Fossil Plants From the Devonian of Eastern North America IV. Plant Remains from the Catskill Delta Deposits of Northern Pennsylvania and Southern New York3
- A New Root Species of Callixylon2
- The age and fossils of the Olentangy Shale of central Ohio2
- The wood Callixylon from the Late Devonian of Ohio, U.S.A1
- Callixylon Wood from the Greenland Gap Group (Upper Devonian) of Southwestern Virginia1
- Paleobotanical Studies in Arctic Canada I. Archaeopteris from Ellesmere Island1
- Callixylon from the Upper Devonian of Northwestern Alberta1
Each of the 36 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 content1
Structured light scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Callixylon sp. · PMSPU:22-21
No picture of Callixylon was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Callixylon itself, so it was not used.
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 Callixylon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCordaitales through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zalessky 1911